what did you learn about harper lee and her reasons? >> well, i was fortunate enough to get great access to two very close friends of her. a new york city couple who gave their friend, harper lee, money. they remain very, very close dear friends to this day. the other person i was also very privileged and fortunate to talk to was alice finch, harper lee's older sister. alice is one of the first women in alabama who was ever admitted to the bar. she -- at 99 she's the oldest practicing attorney in the state. she continues to practice every day, and she hopes to celebrate her 100th birthday in september at her law desk. she was quite a character and told me quite a bit about how the lee girls were raised. and her answer to that question is, she quoted her sister saying, she couldn't top what she had done. she had nowhere to go but down. and i think the combination of this kind of overwhelming thing, the somewhat autobiographical nature of what was written about and not to disappoint yourself let alone the other people out there waiting fo

let's play the game of what should stephen harper say?t who finally got the majority but what else? but to anyone beyond who votes for him tonight? who will start that off? >> i think he needs to reach out it is a good time to celebrate but he needs to who says he is the prime minister's to every canadian because the caucus is very low but for the prime minister that is important to know. >> the change of tone would be nice. waiver in the favored atmosphere of the minority parliament but if that was true then the majority is for him to be more statesman and try to make parliament work better. they take a vantage of that. maybe not tonight. >> one of the first times we see stephen harper in a tie. remember the blue sweater? this is the 2011 campaign is where he is without a tie, a blindness -- blazer and for almost every single campaign appearance over the last five weeks. your thoughts on how he should be speaking tonight on the content of the speech? >> the fear of the conservative majority, it clearly is on the results that you see toni

harper out in front trying to block. he lays a nice block there right across the ten. >> you hear the big hit. i looked up to see garrett laying there. and when he got up, you could tell there was something not quite right there. >> garrett's hurting. garrett's hurting. get garrett out of there. bowen, bowen. bowen, go to four, go to four. come on, get out. we got you, we got you. come on. >> the trainer said, when i came off to the side, i was like, "i know everything, i know everything," because, you know, i didn't want him to think i had a concussion or anything. >> you all right? >> years past, we used to say, "he got his bell rung." but we've kind of shied away from that, and we actually call it what it is, and it was a little bit of a head trauma. >> number 20, josh... >> narrator: there are at least 60,000 concussions like this one every year in high school football. concussions have always been part of the game, but lately, they've been met with far more scrutiny. >> number 32 on third down and six. in trouble. g

harper will have been a bit more.ould say the tone -- >> how about the question that considers the two of three arrested states that journalists coming to think there's going to be any changes? very parsimonious dealing with giving out information. >> mr. harper's indication will answer more questions. but he did actually answer more questions before that and was far more relaxed, dodoma pass, was and is controlled before the campaign and i think we'll see a little bit more relaxing, but they got here this way. they're controlling the message on the one, how they kept increasing, so i don't expect to see a lot of relaxing. >> obviously the big question in the future of the liberals is to talk about possible discussion with the ndp or the left of center progressive forces. some liberals are amusing that. karl talking about rebuilding. whatever could be watching for? >> for the past 24 hours, and abusive, which is he wanted to read on an interim basis. >> that's knocking them out of the running. >> he's got interest to

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dollars dominance will be done by twenty twenty five now earlier i spoke to frederick kauffman harper's contributing editor to get a sense of all of this he's also author of this book a short history of the american stomach and i asked him what's driving the price of commodities is a crop failure is supply and demand or wall street speculation because it had to say. we have hundreds of billions of new dollars transforming and hijacking what was once a rather stable and non volatile market and of course how does volatility enter the market it enters the market because what we're seeing is huge amounts of money from hedge funds and sovereign wealth funds and pension funds coming in from very large banks goldman sachs barclays deutsche bank through all these new very fancy derivative products which have transformed the way the on a technical level the way this stuff is bought and sold on the side of yearly contracts and so the entire nature and form of the market has been transformed and ultimately what we're seeing is more volatility because the money is funny money where you really blame

middle east i mean what could possibly go wrong well anyway according to a contributing editor at harper's magazine scott horton a lot take a look. the arab world has been swept with people from morocco to game and to bahrain and in fact it's it's largely people that spoke this to on the graphic rulers now most people have identified agu dopy in the emirates as what may very well be the single most stable state ne entire arab world i think that's probably correct but nevertheless i think the rulers there are very concerned about these troubles and how they manifest themselves there and what we've seen in the gulf now with many of the states and the girl is a reach to mercenaries do outside soldiers who have no emotional ties to look at the little population that may be rising up and therefore who can be counted on absolutely to follow the commands. of the leader in fact we can think of one country in the world where this is doing on an a very brutal way and that's libya of course but no more copy is propped up his regime drawing heavily on mercenaries who've been brought out of sub-saharan

earlier i caught up with scott horton contributing editor on legal and national security matters for harper's magazine he recently won the national magazine award for his piece i want on a most suicides which is an investigation of the suspicious deaths of three inmates at the facility so i first asked him considering the extensive coverage that he's done on suicide the quantum of a in the past well the first starts where that came to mind when he heard this story. well i think you know well when i start. there's a. best occasion of it but i have to say based on good to be able to learn about this case today the suggestion of suicide sounds forcible. with. one of those prisoners that were raised by the way his name is. seen as is actually u.s. government documents are constantly referred to him as. his lawyers say though it is very use that name except that there are. no idea where they got it they say it's what i'm ready for statements they made. those letters acknowledging each day to prior suicide attempts one came very close to being a successful both of his lawyers say he was suffering f

coming from is it harper? >> harper collins. >> harper collins. it's set in france, i mean, what else do you have to say; right? >> that's all i was going to say. she's adorable. i met her last night. thank you, virginia. so i meant to lead with this. everything i know about love i learned from romance novels. this is a perm thing. she does something like that books, trashy books and the blog. who published it? >> oh, cool. >> none of them are here to appreciate this. i -- this is true, but also everything i learned about history i learned from romance novels which i'll move on to. it's very cute. it might be a gift book for the romance reader in your life, but it's got a little thing going on with, you know, this romance novel telling you this about life, and charming as i'll get out, and i think if you have not learned about love from romance novels, you should. we're not going to do history yet. moving on to horror. nothing more horrifying than horror. i'm going to read. i would totally do triathlons if i didn't have to swim and run. [laughter]

familiar with the shady world of private security contractors horton is a contributing editor of harper's magazine and actually joins us live from moscow of all places scott great to have you on the program i know it's kind of late over there so we appreciate your time as always you know i understand that reinventing oneself is all the rage these days but this isn't the artist formerly known as prince coming out with a new cd album i mean this is the former head of one of the most notorious mercenary armies serving a brand new venture in a car country far out of three each of us last but what's your reaction well it's fascinating on a number of different scores that i think we've seen but due to the nature of the major american motion picture you know certainly every parent star themselves and very very deep trouble in the united states it was a bigger it is the name of the number of grand jury investigations that were going on there were a number of prosecutions brought against blackwater other. company was forced to change its name and reincorporate and he himself became a target and de

twenty five now joining me now from our new york studio on all of this is frederick kaufman he is harper's contributing editor he has covered commodities extensively he is offer a short history. the american stomach i want to thank you so much for joining us now as these economic ministers need to try and tackle the rise the volatility of commodity prices what is really behind them because there are a lot of factors people talk about wall street speculation something you've written extensively about but also normal factors like crop failure and you know inflation so really break it down what do you think is really driving this volatility this time around well you're absolutely right a supply and demand certainly matter and we have climate change richard throughout flood syndrome where we have pio fueled mandates on the supply side and of course on the demand side we see emerging middle classes along the world however added to this conflagration and what we're seeing is a whole new level of volatility in the markets and this is really been in place since the first price spikes in two thousa

chat about all that thank you so much for your time as always a scott horton contributing editor of harper's magazine right now for the fun part yesterday evening if you're like me you may have caught a rather interesting collision of worlds on television jon stewart america's most trusted newsman appeared on bill o'reilly's show to be one of the country's most pressing issues now it wasn't the economy or the wars or the future of this country no the hot topic of that evening was a rapper's appearance at a white house poetry slam and one little something like this you know we thought inviting a rapper named common to a poetry reading at the white house was a big mistake by the administration because common has openly sympathize with two convicted cop killers but our pal jon stewart disagrees with the criticism of common so i challenge him last week to debate and he answered the call. he would i'm shocked i am shocked as i knew you don't understand why people like me and millions of other americans right now are upset upset annoyed and looking for answers that a guy like rahman would be enter

what are you stepping from the harper majority government?ting from the harbor majority government? >> they will start the new session, which will be short. the budget will be put on the table in march. people will come back in full force in september. >> harper has been promising the same budget. he may include changes to the political party financing, removing the public subsidy to political parties. >> he made some promises and discussions during the campaign and a lot of people were wondering why wasn't that in the budgets. some of the money for health care -- they said the money was in the budget, but it was not talked about anywhere. i do not expect a lot of major changes from it. the thing i am looking for is the common. the tone of the last few parliament was so negative and so nasty, we are still struggling to get over that period they have a majority now. they do not have to look over their shoulders that they are going to be defeated. this is going to change how they behave and how they act. it will be a little less confrontational

. >>> canadian prime minister stephen harper will remain in office.servative party won a majority in parliament in monday's election. harper has stayed in office for phi years under a coalition government. >>> we're now learning that a navy seals involved in the raid to kill osama bin laden were based in virginia. >> the mayor of virginia beach wants to honor those seals. the problem is they will remain unknown. >> this morning, andrea mccarren gives us a look at how this whole operation went down. >> on a moonless night, blackhawk helicopters brought the special operations team from an air base in afghanistan. when the navy seals trained for this mission, they were not told who the target was. precision was critical. >> this is why they practice and practice and practice and train and train and train so they know what to do instinctively. >> as a helicopter hovered over the compound, two dozen seals rappeled into action. >> you have a rope, you grab it quickly. >> as the 40-minute raid transpired, the tension was obvious in the white house situation

i sat down with carol silver, bernard lafayette, john lewis, and bill harper.u to listen closely. >> i have to say, i owe a debt of gratitude to all of you, to carol silver, to bernard laugh yet, and of course, you recognize john lewis and bill harper. thank you for the sacrifices you made and what you did. but i have to ask you this, did you ever think you would be sitting here together? look at each other, 50 years, what do you think when you look at each other's faces? >> unreal, unbelievable that some of us are still here. still working. to change america. >> at that time, we were young. and we were frightened. >> you still look young. >> but we were -- we had a purpose. and that -- you can never recapture that unless you had some threat against you. so we are basking in this -- in your attention and the attention of all these young people, and it's wonderful. >> yeah. when mr. lafayette walked in, he said to me, he goes, i finally get to meet you, i'm so proud of you. i'm thinking, me? you're proud of me? i'm proud of you. where does that come from? you di

north side outer loop another accident and harper road on the left hand shoulder. average speed in that direction about 32 miles an hour. northbound on the joint falls expressway at cold spring lane and several city accidents to update you on. register avenue closed between edgewood and wardman. alternate murdock in that area. and love grove at 29th and lock raven at lock hill road. if you're on the inner loop from 83 to 95 it's 45-mile average and 13 to get by. traffic thinning on the beltway. this traffic report is brought to you by bill's carpet hardwood of laminate. you can call them. back over to you. >>> thank you, kristi. >>> more than 45 pounds of sugar a year. that's how much the government says we eat. between diet sodas and sugar free desserts, we also eat a lot of artificial sweeteners. >> reporter: from sodas to jell- os stores are full of sugar- free choices. but something else is making those foods sweet and those ingredients aren't always healthier. >> i don't mind sugar substitutes or artificial sweeteners myself. >> reporter: she's a registered di

. >> harper admits he cheats on his diet from time to time. >> i work out every single day. there's maybe one day i take off every ten days or so. it's part of my every day life. there are times i'm going to have whatever i want. i had pizza yesterday. >> also making an appearance is anna kournikova, replacing jillian michaels. >>> coming up, summer of discontent. the as pitcher sounding off this morning. what he has to say about his team and management. is san francisco about to lose y $2 billion? we'll explain, just ahead. >>> 20 cities in 20 days. may around the bay is visiting the north bay, taking stop in santa rosa. it's home to a bustling downtown, several natural wonders and a

she is the daughter of lee saw harper.rper wrote about her pregnancy discovering motherhood this is the combination of a memoir and a collection of a journey. it is a bit of a different book. and have you read this? >> no. >> it is good >> henry: you talk about changes that i don't remember reading about and my wife was pregnant. >> correct. and changes i do not remember when i was pregnant. when i got pregnant things changed very quickly. nobody told me how to transform with this was going to be patrick physically, emotionally, and transformative lee. intellectually. >> i was an academic, a writer, and it was transformative. and i started investigating my own pregnancy while i was pregnant. it seems like your internal body organs get a range, blood, everything. >> henry: perceptions that did not come out in your research? >> your perception of time? >> yes! the physical changes were early warnings for the promotional physical and physiological changes. because i was so sick with morning sickness i was grounded in reality,

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we are down in the 50s out there statewide from goldsboro back to harpers ferry. plenty of clouds. i think a drier day tomorrow. we'll talk about a wild card weekend of weather all coming up. >>> thanks a lot wyatt. here's a look at tonight's top stories. it looks like we will never see photos of the osama bin laden's body. president barack obama says they could pose a national security risk to the u. s. so he'll keep them under wraps. >>> an anne arundel crossing guard is in the hospital after being hit by a school bus in glen burnie. vicki whitehead was hit early this morning at furnace avenue and sunny brook drive near point pleasant elementary school. she's in serious but stable condition tonight. bus driver and students were not hurt. the cause of the accident is still being investigated tonight. >>> selling your home in this tough economy could be as easy as getting your home a facelift. how to spruce up your home without breaking the bank. plus if you like to spends a lot of time on google or facebook you may be able to blame that for eating up the nation's power. it's the l

harper took office in 2006, but until now, he never had a governing majority. he celebrated the victory last night with supporters in calgary, and he appealed for unity. >> we can now begin to come together again, as we must, as canadians, as fellow citizens, friends and neighbors for our part we are intensely aware that we are and we must be the government of all canadians including those who did not vote for us. >> sreenivasan: the election also shook up the opposition. the leftist new democratic party supplanted the liberals as the country's number two party. for the first time ever, the liberals finished third. israel made a last-ditch effort today to halt a palestinian unity deal between rival factions hamas and fatah. prime minister benjamin netanyahu appealed to palestinian president mahmoud abbas to cancel the agreement. he warned it would deliver a "hard blow to the peace process." hamas has called for israel's destruction, but the militant group said today it would continue an unofficial truce with the jewish state. in economic news, u.s. auto sales r

i went to the harper career stimulus program. that helped a lot because they it's not just networking but they would have speakers that tell you how to write your resume. how to interview; how to use social media; how to use linkedin. i learned as much as i can, or literally everything i can about it to the point where i was asked be a presenter at one of the networking groups and that's what led me to-- i actually do that part-time as an entrepreneur doing linkedin workshops and presentations. i worked at lowes part-time ten to 15 hours a week to supplement my unemployment benefits. i went through the 99 weeks of unemployment so i stayed here and worked part-time until i was offered a job, a full-time job, two months ago. try to lead as normal a life as possible. working helped, even the part- time work. keep current with what's going on and just continue to keep searching. >> tom: that's "nightly business report" for friday, may 6. i'm tom hudson. have a good weekend everyone. you, too, susie. >> susie: good night tom. we hope

. >>> and grammy winner ben harper performs the new hit single from his first solo cd in five years.'s the "cbs morning news" for this thursday. thanks for watching, everybody, i'm betty nguyen. have a great day. ,,,,,,

saved ninety people and a long list of the missing have been found alive all my talk show host laurie harper this has been asking people whether we need to reassess how we tackle survival during nature's lethal onslaughts. tornadoes ripping down buildings nuclear power plants melting down are we building our society responsibly are with any forethought at all this week let's talk about that do you think society thinks the long term or are they just always doomed to think of a short term idea depends which country you're in. i think americans are very short term. i think europe is. why aren't planes made of the material the black boxes me out of. you know those are just not enough for thought put into it i just maybe dad or maybe there's other things that we're not really seeing maybe it's you know i mean i'm sure a lot of i'm sure yeah some people are going to say it's some big government conspiracy or i think that the friends. companies because. there is no private interests in the nuclear weapons that i hope that it's sure so maybe if there are people worried about making money so much the

world governing body for is facing yet more embarrassments harper allegations of bribery went against the vice president john warner and a presidential candidate mohamed bin hammam wealthy for investigating the claims made by a child glazer general's pre paid aeration the organization said the allegations related to a meeting with twenty five caribbean football leaders. around three weeks ago when one is made to try to lobby for support of a scandal countless days ahead of the sport's governing bodies presidential election which seems been run off against the incumbent and favorite central and south all these latest allegations and regulatory nationals hopes of becoming the next president of peta which have been rapidly fading over the last month. and given my symptoms two percent. chances and i know this is the person it's going to be that go on their own that is going on be not only know that i did not do you know complete beginners one who is in the embassy or so long the idea is also a lot of people are looking for work all of the changes are going to work for the new ideas the ru

thanks roy harper and welcome to our business report for this hour b.p. and rosneft arctic exploration and share spot deal has collapsed sources close to rosneft say it will be looking for a new partner to explore the arctic the failure of its agreement with b.p. comes after b.p.'s current partner in russia they are reportedly rejected a thirty two billion dollars offer to buy it stake in t.n. k b p a r has consistently objected to the nature of the deal saying it broke its shareholder agreement with b.p. however sources suggest a are is still prepared to negotiate if the conditions can be met for an hour sun during down the street i constantly see not head of the national energy security fund thank you so much for joining us and hopefully can shed some light on this deal for us now tell me is this the end was a possibly just another twist in the negotiating process so i called into my informational sniffed didn't see and a few surprises from well so that is why it's my personal view on this case in my opinion of course. all the stories there will be more

upstanding reviews, "fire on the horizon: the untold story of the gulf oil disaster" published by harper collins this spring. in april of 2010 we watched media coverage of the deepwater horizon oil rig explosion and and and check flow of crude oil into the gulf of mexico. the environmental impact is unfathomable. 11 people died and thousands more have their lives and livelihood forever impacted by the oil spill. tom shroder takes off the and it kind back story of maritime tradition, economics, politics and corporate policy that culminated in the disaster and with clear insight for writing shows what happened and how and to whom. the most compelling thing about this book is it is a very human story. please help me welcome tom shroder. [applause] >> thanks for coming out today on such a gorgeous day. i have to say in advance that i haven't had a chance to prepare as i usually do for these talks because i spent the last couple weeks in a very scary situation. my son who is becoming a scuba diving instructor got an infection on his elbow and called up and said what should i do? are set if it

stephen harper and his conservatives won yesterday.ust chug, knock back maple leaf syrup and i don't know break out in "o, canada." please, let us across the border. please, please. no offense, canada, be you're not known for your fighting prowess, but you are the strongest one of the group now. pakistan, well, i mean, i they are over here they could fall at any time. friend or foe. which are they? were they harboring ubl or not? the country could go into a tailspin but let's not forget the killers were from pakistan. now we are spreading from iran through afghanistan. in to pakistan. in to india. who said, who is he? from india to spain. egypt since mubarak stepped down, anti-american sentment has been growing. we're not real popular over there. the muslim brotherhood for shariah law poised to take control go to glennbeck.com to see the latest approval ratings for the muslim brotherhood. and ours. by the way, they came out today. and defended resistance to u.s. presence in iraq and afghanistan. as legitimate. but our president loves i

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studio in new york is scott horton contributing editor on legal and national security matters for harper's magazine scott thanks so much for joining us tonight now from everything that i've been reading and researching here at this just seems like a mind boggling absolutely crazy insane expansion of this war on terror and let's go back to those words that i mentioned right it's taliban al qaeda and associated forces that's very broad it's very vague is that essentially you know if this went through and if it passed without allow us to go after anyone that we that we felt like. yeah maybe it's a war against the bad guys whoever they are undefined but in this goes to the core of a sort of ideological struggle between the obama administration and the republicans that goes back for quite some time remember in the bush era we had a global war on terror gee what that was going on all over the world and against groups that were not really very clearly defined and obama during this campaign and after he became president insisted that this really wasn't a very smart way to go about fighting a war t