on the back is a stamp from the hawaii state registrar. doubters claim it is unsigned and bogus but the stamp is how they do it in hawaii. move this down and away. they also claim it doesn't have a raised seal, which you can see it does. the photos are from the nonpartisan factcheck.org, taken at obama headquarters in chicago. cruise the web, you will find plenty of other documents this one purporting to show mr. obama was born in kenya, even though the birth certificate actually gets the name of the country wrong, the republic of kenya, at the time it wasn't called the republic of kenya as it says it was right there. a lot of people are buying the notion of a foreign president. check this out, pretty stunning. "new york times" news poll, 1 in 5 said president obama is kenyan by birth, another 23% said they just don't know. only 58% said the president of the united states is an american. granted, that's a majority, still, can you recall any other time a significant number of people had any doubt about their president. here's what the edito

she grabbed the kids, went to hawaii.now that there is turmoil in that relationship. what we don't know is what they've been told about the death of their mother if anything at this point. but i've got to believe they know something, mommy's not there. >> yeah, right. gloria allred, victims' rights advocate and attorney. you've dealt with children in so many cases. i've followed many of your cases over the years. those children as pawns in any kind of legal matter that comes up, how will they be protected? chances are if he's responsible. and again, we do not know. but if he was, they may have seen something really critical to this case. how do they deal with children under those circumstances? >> yeah, we'll have to find out the age of those children, but i'm sure what the children have seen or heard or both is going to be of interest to the investigators. also of interest is the report that the investigators have said that before he reported his wife missing he took the children back to the united states. how do you do

for the first time a unified kingdom of hawaii in 1810. the first king, king kamehameha, day was celebrated in hawaii on june 11, 1872. this state holiday is a sell wration of the rich history and culture of hawaii. this resolution will be on a ceremony on june 6, 2010, so it will not disrupt the tours of the capitol. i urge members to support this resolution and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from florida, for what purpose does do you rise? mr. stearns: i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. stearns: i am also pleased to support this resolution authorizing the use of emancipation hall to celebrate the birthday of king kamehameha of hawaii. i think many of us have read all about this distinguished individual. and the history. so it's altogether appropriate that the king often known as kamehameha the great is really indeed a legendary figure in hawaiian history and culture and rightly so. he fought heroically for its unity and independenc

sure sign they are afraid what the voters of hawaii may do.avor shipping jobs overseas. the reason for that is because i signed a pledge not to raise taxes. it is utterly prepros -- preposterous claim but a sign of how desperate the democrats are. we can win. if we win here in hawaii it makes a profound statement for the republicans to take back control of the u.s. house of representatives this coming november. >> sean: it seems the biggest issue with the campaign committee their attacks is that you oppose the stimulus plan. you have gone on record saying you have never voted for a tax increase. never supported wasteful government spending. we have chronicled in two specials on this program the government waste as it relates to the stimulus. i would think this is a favorable issue for. it is the only thing -- go ahead. >> sean, it clearly shows the desperation. i think of the majority of congress and how they are taking our nation in the wrong direction. my candidacy is built on a simple premise that i understand every single dollar that the g

she's from hawaii. she is backed by the university of chicago, highly controversy institution on the south side especially for black folks. and also, his money is coming from white people, from shoes. it got really ugly and he got beat so bad that certainly michelle obama was not eager to repeat the experience and really almost left politics for the life of a little of this, a little of that. writing, teaching, may be running a foundation. was that close. >> people who are successful are often successful because they fail. if they learn the proper lessons from their setbacks. >> absolutely. >> what did he learn from that and how was he able to move forward? >> he learned he's not bobby rush. he learned he's not a guy that is going to succeed by trying to out-bobby rush bobby rush. he started going on trips of the state, the counties, the suburbs around chicago. he starts going south in the state with a kind of old political hand from the state legislature named dan showmen and he's been visiting -- and

hope to see all these folks, not specifically these folks, hope to see them all in hawaii with david schneider. take a look, if you would, at exhibit 30, internal wamu documents called a significant incident notification. now, this is west lake village, so that's near los angeles. those were loans that were issued in 2007, but the report says april 108. first bullet, many of the loans had several fraud findings, such as fabricated asset statements, altered statements, income misrepresent tailings, and one altered statement that is believed to have been used in two separate loans. we're talking here about west lake village. some of the associates would manufacture asset statements from previous loan documents and submit them to the office. they said the pressure was tremendous to get them, since the loan had already been funded and pressure for the loan to get the loan funded. page two, sales associates would take asset statements from other files and cut and paste the current borrower's name and address. were you informed about the investigation of the west lake village office? >> up

reed, first of all, you're reporting on the hawaii trip and what they actually spent the money on.me up with? >> that's right, andrea. this is the semiannual meeting the republican national committee holds. they held it the last weekend of january. while they were out there the republican national committee spent about $340,000. that we know of so far on this three-day meeting. there are 168 members of the republican national committee. that works out to about $2,000 per member. by the way, the members themselves had to pay for their own tickets to get out there. by and large, this is a much bigger expense. it comes at a time when republicans need all the money they can to take advantage of this great political landscape they face. >> in fact, they took 33 staff members and paid for them. they weren't paying their own way. >> that's right. at least 33 staff members went. 29 of them were given some form of reimbursement. we know they were in hawaii as well as another four of them who are rnc officials, including former chief of staff ken mckay, chairman mike steele, treasurer randy

people live at the bottom of the grand canyon, hawaii, alaska, pr and we all want to be able to access e-bay. that is one of those industries that has grown enormously as a result of having the postal service available to its. the country has benefited and it has benefited from the postal service providing the uniform rates. the economy has benefited even if the postal service itself has not from those rates that are available. i think the question is a postal regulatory commission deals with they're not just the dollars and cents whether the postal service will breakeven but what are the needs of the country? it is educational scientific, a construction and social needs and other it needs those as well as the obligations to break-even? with regard to your first question and about presorting mail and bar coding yes you get discounts but if you are a nonprofit agency the law says you only have to pay 60% of the rates that a for-profit says when email at the standard mail. that is something the congress decided was important to. the postal service has an obligation to assure that nonprof

he is from hawaii.he is backed by the university of chicago, highly controversial institution on the southside especially for black folks and also his money is coming from white people, from jewish. it got really really ugly and he got beat so bad that certainly michelle obama was not eager to repeat the experience. and really almost left politics for a life of a little of this, little of that, writing, teaching and maybe running a foundation. he was that close. >> people who are successful often say this because they have failed if they learned the proper lessons. what did he learn from that and how was he able to move forward? >> he is not a bobby rush. he learned he is not a guy who is going to succeed by trying to out bobby rush bobby rush. he starts to go on trips throughout the state. collar counties, the suburbs around chicago. he starts going south into the state with an old political hand from the state legislature named dan shulman and he has been visiting and he starts to see that white peopl

miss hawaii teen world. but a few minutes after her father dropped her off at school, she is your suffered a stroke and within a week she was gone. >> every moment, every second we spent together, it was amazing. >> she's amazing. such a special person. that's why i loved her so much. >> it is not about the crown on your head but the crown in your heart. cheryl definitely did have a crown in her heart. >> she got her driving permit. she asked that her organs be donated. her ashes will be scattered along a beach in hawaii. >>> still ahead in the next half hour, "news4 at 5:00," u.s. air marshal from northern virginia is facing charges after police say he sexually assaulted an escort. >> the world's largest study ever to look at whether or not cell phones are safe. it gets under way. >>> take your child to workday today. show you how the first lady and first >>> welcome back, everybody. i'm jim handly. >> i'm wendy rieger. coming up in this- hour, after a massive search for a lost dog at dulles airport today t

bearish too long on hawaii electric.t's my bad. i like the 5% yield. why was i bear snsh because frankly hawaii was having more of the great recession than most places. i think we're bottoming, you've got a good yield there, they've got a lot of properties besides that. let me double check. i think it's much more than just utilities. yeah, it's got a lot of different subsidiaries. i like h.e. i think that's a good name. >> buy buy buy zblchld let's go to judy in texas. judy, judy, judy. >> caller: hey, cramer. a hardy yee-ha from south text and the great city of harlingen. >> man, we're getting the best texan calls coming yet. what's up? >> caller: my question today concerns vbn and how the recent apache acquisition would play into growth of this energy company. >> you've got a company now, and you know we're big fans of larry nichols but you've got devon, range resource, equitable, and ultra. these are entirely natural gas plays. unless we see it go to $4 or $5 or we see some move in wash that boone pickens has promised

he was born in hawaii.he was born in hawaii. >> i didn't say he wasn't born in hawaii. >> his roots may have come from kenya but sending him home, he is home, tom. you're leave lg the impression -- >> she says home. >> -- that barack obama, this is not his home. fueling the rhetoric, is it responsible -- >> ed? >> yeah. >> it could be, you can take this in a variety of ways. you can say she was just referencing -- when she said this, kenya, is his homeland or home country, you can say, well, she probably meant it in terms of where he was, i guess people who are the, quote, birthers -- >> you know what you're inferring, tom. you know exactly what you're doing. >> or you can say she was talking about where he is, you know, spiritually, emotionally. >> oh, come on. >> whatever it is, it's not america. >> tom, you know what the climate of the country is right now. >> she should have said his home is america. >> what you said is irresponsible. it wasn't fair. >> she shouldn't have brought it up. >> look, it's wh

in hawaii i have no less than six nationalities, our race, and most of us in hawaii do that and i ame hawaiian than anything . ho: let us go to a comment on most people vote personal interest and -- what is it for me. let us go to earl from florence, ky. independent. caller: how are you today? host: thank you. the boat for the person of the party? caller: i go independent, and here is why. republican or democrats, and they all seem to have hidden agendas. take, for instance, this $4.30 trillion lawsuit from -- against the sec. the sec delayed and may turn their eyes from obvious infractions, thereby causing this large crash on wall street and is just like everybody has hidden agendas. they are trying to steal money here left and right. i think if you are independent, you have a little bit more responsibility towards the people instead of trying to pad of the pockets of the crooked politicians. host: fairfax, virginia. republican, phil. caller: i have a question. i am wondering how it is, what policy have when you decide to come in and correct a caller. if you callers back somebody sa

what is the native dance in hawaii? is that the hula dance? >> steve: i think so. >> matt: here's kelso. 0-2 in this ball game. struck out looking in the first. and flew out to third. >> matt: the -- they put the apple in the pigs mouth. and roast it over the open fire. the pit. >> steve: interesting national anthem the heinz team as well today. >> matt: absolutely. played the national anthem is played on the uric laically. i can say that's probably the first and hopefully the last time i experience that. no, he did a fine job. here is the -- >> steve: blake kelso did a good job of getting on base. throwing 26 pitches in the last three innings. >> matt: that's the first base runner since the second. grace city takes the strike. out of south texas. out of cisco junior college. beat out the enbent at third base this season. played primarily at third. jake runty. gracey a little bit better offensive threat. hit that one to right field. run down by mozingo for the first out. >> steve: well struck right there. he is having a hard time hitting to th

miss teen hawaii died after suffering a massive stroke while sitting in class. she collapsed during the school day last week. she was in a, up until last week when she died. no one could have predicted this since she was only 18 with no prior health problems or family history of early stroke. people here in maryland feel the impact of the mechanic direction. we will tell you how some local businesses are dealing with the lack of air travel. >> and your traveling on the ground this afternoon, there is a chance of some showers. is already raining lightly across the area. tonight is going to be cloudy. details coming up. we can take a look at the current temperatures. 62 downtown. - are you chronically ill and can't work? are you mentally ill and can't work? are you physically disabled and can't work? then the law firm of disability associates should be working for you. for years, disability associates has been working with our clients to get them the social security benefits that they deserve. don't be just another client at another law firm. - depend on disabilit

host: up early in hawaii is mike on the republican line go ahead. caller: i am a disabled combat veteran. i travel frequency around the world. i go to nigeria quite often. i've been stopped extensively. i have multimetal parts in my body. i have been held many times for over six or seven hours to go to nigeria or come back. is there any way around that? i have a purple heart. i fight for this country. i believe in it. we need to do some things better. i'm jewish. how for those of us who do serve do we get around a seven-hour head -- hold? >> you have been held for serve hours? caller: yes. i was held at the passport office. they misspelled my name by one letter. going forward, if there's a specific issue. the fact that he travels back and forth to nigeria and has metal in his body. the "new york times" on saturday had a piece about the plan going into affect. still some thoughts guest: the term profiling is really loaded to me, this is as far away from profiling as we can get. >> it seems to me we can improve on what we've done in the way of this sy

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if you're holding it in hawaii.rat's at large expenditure comes from conferences and events they have held at this hotel. this is all part of doing business. what it does come in the rnc's expenditure spending $2,000 at that sex-themed club in los angeles. that's brought a lot more scrutiny. one of the big conclusions, coming out in a "washington post" looking at expenditures in the rnc and dnc, wining and dining big contributors, it costs money to get big-time donors. we just saw president obama for barbara boxer, many democrats putting up as much as $30,000. sometimes you need to give those folks more than peanuts or crackers. >> spend money to make money. i think that's the cliche. let's talk about the developing news regarding marco rubio. what is happening there with this preliminary investigation with the irs. >> florida and florida senate race has been one of the most interesting races to cover. in the last couple of weeks most of the focus has squared on charlie crist, whether he will make an independent enr

barack obama grew up in hawaii.now about hawaii, it prides itself on multi-culturalism except for one thing, there aren't many african-americans around. most are on military bases. barack obama grew up with an absent father, as we know. he's somebody who had to go out and find his identity in the way most don't. most have it at their kitchen table, their community, church, synagogues. it's all around them. obama had to watch television, seek it out, read books. finally when it gets to the mainland, not until either to the south side of chicago really where he finds a sense of community and purpose. >> there's also a great story in the book i think a lot of people certainly now given the economic times can relate to. you talk about him arriving at the 2000 democratic convention in los angeles. he's just lost this tough race to bobby rush. he shoes up at the car rental counter at the airport and his american express card is declined. everybody has had those days. >> not only is it declined, he has no ticket for the co

hawaii and was added later after the concession to protest and one ethnic category hispanic latino which is not racial. it was good for civil rights but open the way to chaos. >> the classification portended enormous turmoil and now there was a non instead equate category dither not exist hispanic white people? yes. faced with a given racial choices on the census of 200042. to percent of latinos checked some other race rather than black or white although nearly 6% of other americans went into a ratio will go. in addition the u.s. census of 2000 had to increase a deeper and more personal recognition of multiracial identities. for the first time respondents were allowed to describe themselves as belonging to one or more of the 15 racial identities. a so often in the past added confusion and a list of races including nationalities. this expansion been allowed for 126 s no racial groups or for the pure 63 races it did not take much of analytical ability to see any notion of race was so diluted as to lose much of the plunge and also buckle much further under the weight two of interracial sex.

cut out your coffee runs, going ocean city snow of hawaii and buying the store brand yogurt but what if the balance meant cutting firefighters or police officers, a preview of the budget proposal this morning. linda. >> reporter: we should learn how many jobs will be cut, also what kind of taxes and fees will go up. the city thus find a way to plug a $120 million deficit. under the proposed budget there were calls to lay off more than 100 -- 600 city employees including 120 police officers and 90 fair fighter, the police department would also lose the helicopter uni, the mayor hopes to reverse some of those with new taxes and fees, one thing proposing is a $0.04 tax on beverage containers, the budge et also includes cuts to programs that benefit youth and senior, wreck and parks would be hit particularly hard losing nearly 1/3 of the budget. the mayor has promised to try to avoid only of the deep cut, and will outline the revised budget plan later this morning at city hall. we are live at city hall, abc 2 news. >>> it is 6:33, more information about the investigation of the worst min

not know -- he can be african-american man or someone from kentucky, it can be someone raised in hawaii whose father is from kenya, but if you want mainstream a septums, you have to find a way to make yourself mainstream. if there is anything that harry reid said that was not true -- >> that does not make it rate. >> harry reid did not say anything the black people have not said themselves. [applause] maybe it was not polyptych thing for him to save but i don't think anyone would say that it did not ring true. i went to morehouse college, and have a program -- an induction program. you went there once a week and you would talk -- you are taught how to speak, how to address, how to behave. it was assimilation 101. it was intended to take you from the country to the city, from the minor leagues to the major league, and i was happy to do it because i was sitting where martin luther king, jr. had sat at decade before. that is part of what it takes living in this multi-cultural, multi-racial society. we have to find a way to fit in. but we cannot lose who we are. >> you are saying that there

i ran london and i ran hawaii. >> he got us interested in running.e got kevin interested in biking. so we've been very fortunate to participate in sporting events with him. >> all i do is fix the pasta the night before the marathons. >> since the beginning bob kept meticulous records about the miles accumulated. the oak crest retirement center where he lives he will run his 50,000th mile there. and he says he'll push for 100,000. >>> one of the oldest centers in america getting a much needed facelift. this y location on druid hill avenue has been serving the community for several decades. the executive director says visitors will be very pleased once all the construction is complete. >> in this particular facility we'll be renovating our lobby area. also behind me our child watch area where we serve younger kids. our gymnasium is being renovated also and we're almost complete with that as well as our second floor, center where we have programs for youth and several other operations out of our teen center for the community. we have community groups be

so he takes this idea and he ends up in new mexico with an industrial-scale opening for hawaii his powertion but then -- for his power station but then all the chaos of his life has come trailing behind him. two of the women in his life, because he is a philanderer. a lawyer, things come pouring into this corner of new mexico, a sweet little town called lordsberg where i went and researched this.j@ something of chaos that the copenhagen meeting ended in. tavis: i want to come back to your research strategies in just a second but i have to go back and resurrect this. you refer to michael beard as a scoundrel in the text in the novel. indeed he is but the first few pages of this book, the way you start this book. you come out the gates -- you come out of the block so fast in the opening of this book, i assume that that was by design. you're like oh, my. i mean, you got thievery. again, that's just in the first few pages of the book. >> in the first few pages of the book, his fifth marriage is dissint greating. it is his wife having the affair with the builder. this man is going to play an

. -- mike in hawaii. caller: i traveled frequently. i go to nigeria quite often to do with orphans and aids. i have a multi-metal parts in my body. i am always screened currie i have been held many times, sometimes for over seven hours to go to nigeria. is in any way around that? i have a purple heart. i believe in this country. i know we do things wrong. we need to have better views. i am jewish. i do think we treat the palestinians wrong. for those who do serve and honor this country, how do we get around seven-hour holds into just getting out? host: you have been held for seven hours for questioning? caller: yes. i was held at the passport office. fate misspelled my name by one letter. -- they have misspelled my name by one letter. they held my passport. host: thank you for sharing your story. guest: the measures we're talking about are a step in the right direction.

obama who has made fighting child of obesity one of her focuses will sit down with a student from hawaii. his topic was charles guto pc. joining will be other studentcam filters -- his topic was childhood obesity. joining will be other studentcam filmmakers. that is wednesday on c-span. >> tonight, a discussion on the federal oversight of car safety standards with former administrators of the national highway safety administration. pvalso, the president and ceo f the alliance of automobile manufacturers. that is live at 8:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span, c- span.org and c-span radio. >> "washington journal" continues. host: joining us from new york is joann lublin, managing editor at the "wall street journal." she is here to talk to was about ceo pay and perks. welcome to the program. guest: thank you for having me. host: the article you wrote last week was based on the recession that says it took its toll on wall street as well as everybody else. tell us about this. guest: what the survey showed was that for the second year in a row, total compensation for the ceos drop. that was not ju

the hawaii airlines took the top spot in the survey, while three regional carriers bottomed out on the list. overall, the industry saw fewer complaints and lost bags and more on-time flights. it was the last time they have topped the list. delta is the worst rating of the airlines. rounding out the top five, air transit number two. jet blue at number three. northwest at number 4. and number five is southwest. an update now on the great barrier reef last weekend. today, crews were able to reflow the ships. about 44 miles away before the storms hit that region tomorrow. and the crews, they are still assessing the damage throughout the weeks and deciding if the company will have to pay the fines. >>> so the storm is headed down there. but also around here, huh? >> yeah, not so much the big storms. but just some, you know, gray skies and the drizzles. we have that to our south now, producing the low-level clouds tonight. and the clouds are up tomorrow. a little drizzle possible in the morning. the best chance for the drizzle and the light rain that will be just out there. with the sunshine

after year after year instead of being disciplined or fired they are giving a rewarding trips to hawaii and the bahamas. how does that happen? >> mr. chairman and in case of fraud where there is an investigation i ask the h.r. group to the investigation if they come back with a recommendation to terminate or punish an employee i would have taken that recommendation. spec were you aware of the fact they are going on every one of those years? >> i was not. >> should you have been? >> it depends how people thought it was. >> was there a recommendation in 2005 to take action against those officers? >> the 2005 report which i see here is something i was familiar with. i don't know the specific recommendations were. right at the beginning of the time i joined the company. [inaudible conversations] back in 05 this memorandum outlines exhibit 22a at the beginning of the memorandum outlines a few of the most egregious activities identified based on targeted reviews of the documentation with specific areas of failure to follow policy. based on the consistent pattern of activity among these employ

being mark twain, he still didn't have any money, so he went to hawaii for several months, what he termed luxurious gagrancy. during the visit, he became one of the first main landers to try the support of surfing. it didn't work well. the board struck the shore in three seconds without any cargo. i struck the bottom the same time with a couple barrels of water in me. he spent the rest of his time closely observing the native hula dancers, purely form the sake of rezap and visit -- research and vips it'sed the site of captain cook of enraged islanders in 1979, justifiable homicide and hiked across the floor of an active volcano where twain said the smell of sulfur wag strong but not unpleasant for a sinner. he returned to san francisco, dead broke as usual, an wondering what to do neck. someone suggested he rent a theater and give a electric thank you on his recent trip. he could actually charge people to hear him talk, which is something he'd been doing for free, virtually non-stop all his life. twain agreed and on august 2, 1876, he made his performing debut at mcguire's academy of musi

he had a foot in many camps in a multi racial society in hawaii and in a black society as a teen and in the first years of college. later on, as a community organizer and he believes that it's what we have in common that we should emphasize, rather than our diversity. the last thing a black president wants to do is emphasize race. he wants race to be irrelevant and if that's irrelevant, he's succeeded. host: maryland. go ahead. democratic line. caller: yes, i wanted to make a point. i keep talking about people that talk about obama not having enough experience or tough enough. i think when president obama came and he did not work in office and health care, but no, he held back and let the people, the senators and everybody have something say about it until there was consensus and then he walked and make it happen, like a gentlemen comes to sending more troops to afghanistan. he took his time. the man has a strategy, he takes his time and thinks about hit until he comes up with the best possible decision and he goes ahead and makes it. i don't think he's - like they say, lack of tough

. >> reporter: washington mutual offered incentives like trips to hawaii for those who sold riskier,rofitable loans. an e-mail encouraged employees to reach the president's club. >> any time there is fraud we took it very seriously. >> no. what you did is reward the folks that are being investigated with trips. that's the action. >> reporter: a former risk manager at washington mutual testified he warned executives that the housing bubble would lead to massive defaults. >> did you ever step in and try to get people to take a more conservative approach at wamu? >> constantly. >> were you listened to? >> very seldom. >> reporter: senators say as early as next week, they'll decide if they'll turn other their findings for possible criminal prosecution. kelly o'donnell, nbc news, the capitol. >>> when we come back, a whole lot of shaking going on in one part of this country. you know, when i grow up, i'm going to own my own restaurant. i want to be a volunteer firefighter. when i grow up, i want to write a novel. i want to go on a road trip. when i grow up, i'm going to go there. i'm goin

. >> reporter: the sex club caper happens after steele held a lavish party meeting in hawaii.surprised party big wigs freelancing with a book and paid speeches. bad management say republican critics. >> are the procedures in place to spend money on elections, not to spend money on jets and trips to bondage clubs. >> reporter: most damaging of all for steele is the bottom line. in the past decade the republican party vastly outraised democrats. this year the democrats are running even with the gop. and even have more cash on hand. many republican donors tell nbc news they are bypassing the national party, sending their checks to their governors' association or directly to candidates. not at all happy about the way their leader is redefining grand old party. andrea mitchl, nbc news, washington. >>> when our broadcast continues tonight, the wait is almost over. the next big thing on the planet ready to arrive. will it change life as we know it? [ male announcer ] ready for the most amazing miracle-gro results ever? spectacular plants without all the weeds. with miracle-gro shake

marc plotts was found unconscious tuesday at marine corps base in hawaii. police tried to resuscitate him. plotts in listed in marines in 2007. -- plotts enlisted in the marines in 2007. >>> evans represent ward two. brown isn't out large council member. >>> the vatican was aware of sexual abuse by priests back in the 1960's. this letter from 1963 to the head of the roman catholic order recommended removing a pedophile priest from active ministry. the letter appears to have been requested by the pope will have more on this and it live report coming up later. >>> 5:07, 53 degrees. dramatic new details about the fbi raid on a christian militia. an agent got inside. >> you try to get in there without the hip boots, you sink. >> the flood waters keep on coming. >> it will be a beautiful day if you want to take a trip to the tidal basin. the cherry blossoms are in full tidal basin. the cherry blossoms are in full bloom. >>> and a very go morning. brian van de graaff here on thursday. yesterday was 71. it gets even warmer as we look into tomorrow and the weekend.

the presiding officer: the senator from hawaii. mr. akaka: mr. president, it is timely that we have started to consider the financial services modernization legislation during april. this is a month that we have designated as financial literacy month. there are three vital components to financial literacy: educati education, consumer protection, and economic empowerment. h.r. 3217, the wall street reform bill, includes the central provisions in all three of these areas for consumers and investors. i have worked extensively with the chairman of the banking committee and other members of the committee to ensure that the bill includes essential education, consumer protection and economic empowerment provisions. and, mr. president, i appreciate all of the great leadership and work done by our chairman, chris dodd, and his efficient and effective and hard-working staff to develop this legislation so important to working families. with regard to education, the legislation creates an office of financial literacy within the consumer financial protection

i'll tell you what he don't look like no dang hawaii kran i have ever seen.ast president was born in connecticut, went to harvard business school, and the yale, sand still talked like boss hogg for some reason. nobody thought that was strange. you know what else wasn't born in this country? sophia vergara and pizza. you dang al plump hamster in front of the president's face, if he eats it, he's one of those lizard people from "v." the president was in new york today to talk and ask them not to stop financial reforms. >> some on wall street forget that behind every dollar traded. >> la, la, la, la, la, la, la. >> jimmy: see what i mean. it's like they're intentionally not trying to hear what he was saying. vice president biden was on the "view." he was there to set the word record for most botox on one couch. for several weeks, we've been following the story of the unstoppable monkey in florida. it escaped from somewhere. for more than a year, they haven't been able the catch it. tranquilizer guns have had no effect on the monkey. now it has a facebook page wi

let's treat puerto ricans with the same respect as we did to alaskans, hawaii and other states. they decide by themselves what was better for them. this bill doesn't do that. for all these reasons i ask my colleagues to vote no and i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentlewoman yields back. the gentleman from washington state is recognized. mr. hastings: mr. speaker -- mr. chairman, i yield myself the balance of the time. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. hastings: mr. speaker, as we conclude this general debate, i want to make one thing very clear and that point is that we in congress on a bipartisan basis welcome the citizens of puerto rico to communicate to us their wishes. but, mr. chairman, this is not the right process for that. i recognize this is not a vote on statehood. mr. chairman, we are setting a precedent where we are asking a territory of the united states if they want statehood. looking back in the history, i found it pretty murky whether that even happened. what happened generally and certainly in a vast majority of the 50 states that

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. >>> the state of hawaii is looking for a bill to stop people from bothering them for proof of president obama's birth. >> president obama heads to the heart of the nation's financial industry today, new york. he delivers remarks blocks from wall street, making his case for more government oversight for big banks. >> president obama travels to new york this morning, where he will deliver remarks, reminding americans of what is at stake if we don't reform the financial industry. he will urge those on wall street to join him rather than fight him. and he will encourage lawmakers to bring transparency to the derivatives market. democratic leaders in the senate are close to a deal to pass the president's reform plan with key republicans in agreement. >> we have made enormous progress. we are more optimistic than i have ever been. >> if senator grassley was the first republican to back the plan. some say the derivatives were responsible for the financial meltdown. other lawmakers also see the possibility of bipartisan cooperation. >> this bill is potentially the beginning of us being able to

firm action was paid trip to the hawaii -- paid trips ought -- paid trips to hawaii and the boss?u troubled by that? -- why and the bahamas. should the bank be troubled? should your investors were stockholders or anybody be troubled by that except us? >> anytime there is fraud, we took it very seriously. >> if it was from, you reward the folks being investigated with trips. that is the action, year after year, the president's club that you say, exit 62, -- exhibit 62, you hope to find the employees of top sales people at wamu, that you hope to see them all in hawaii. david schneider. take a look at exhibit 30. it is an internal document called "significant incident notification" dated april 1st, 2008. this is westlake village, near los angeles. these are loans issued in 2007 but the report is dated april 1st, 2008. the first bullet point -- many of the loans had several fraud findings, like fabricated asset statements, altered statements, income and misrepresentation, and one altered state of believed to have been used in two separate loans. the third ball point -- one sales assoc

not only will get to hawaii, it also ranked number one. airtran is number two in the annual study. at the bottom of the list? three regional carriers, american eagle, atlantic southeast and come air. >>> do you live in a cool community? not talking about a neighborhood with just trendy shops and activities, for some people, a community needs one more thing going for us. melanie is on-deck. >> reporter: access is the x factor here. it will save you time and money and also help save the environment. vibrant restaurants, quirky spaces and trendy townhouses. it's hip, it's happening, it's hyattsville? >> it seems to be a secret. >> reporter: this city of 18,000 is getting a makeover centered around the new arts district development. >> a new 14 cinema theater. the coming busboys and pro ets and yes, organic market. there's neat little businesses that have come up. >> reporter: that's not the only thing. >> you can live there and you can visit restaurants and stores. and then you can get on to the bus and go downtown to the job. >> reporter: because of that, the hyattsville arts distric

. >> shark tour operators can't do it anymore in florida and hawaii after a series of vicious shark attackss banned in both states. but shark tour operators in south africa point out even though shark tourism has risen dramatically in the past decade, shark attacks have not. on average five attacks on humans every year in south africa. craig and others insist the behavior of sharks is changing. normally if a shark bites a human, they release them. the shark that attacked him did not n. the last four years there have been at least two deadly attacks in which sharks ate their victims whole. so who is right? unfortunately, the science to support either position isn't easy to come by. for all our fear and fascination of great whites, they remain a mystery. there is so much we simply don't know about their behavior. they've never been seen mating or giving birth. they are classified as an endangered species, we don't know how many of them there are. allison is a marine biologist studying the effects of cage diving on great whites. she is tagging them to track the shark's movements around these w

. >>> if you're looking for smooth sailing for domestic flights, go to hawaii and take hawaiian airlinesranked the airlines at the top of the list for the nation's busiest carrier. phil lebeau has more. what exactly did that look at and who else made the ranking? zpl this is all the compilation of data taken by the department of transportation in 2009. it crunches all the data and says, okay, where are they doing better or worse. one being customer complaints to the d.o.t., mishandled or well-handled bags, as well as whether or not they are bumping passengers. there you see the top, hawaiian and air tran. you're seeing a division into three parts. your low-cost carriers tend to be the best in those four categories. then, your legacy air carriers. at the bottom tend to be the regional carriers. the regional carriers fly those jets that people tend to feel cramped on. they're also operating at smaller airports and sometimes, you have to go to the gate and you're checking a bag there. that said, at the end of the day when the data is crunched, the airlines did better last year in terms of f

oh yeah, our president is from hawaii. silly island country. if you disagree with me, are you a racist homo phobe who feeds puppies to nicholas inning ka. -- nicholas cage. that's one of the worst greg-alogues i have ever written. it was an extremely slow news day. i sat for hours trying to figure out what to write. before you take it apart just say you can't hurt me because i know it is bad. >> fair enough. it was bad. 3*. >> you are saying bad because you disagree. i just say it was poorly written. >> it was a poor news day too, which is why it was bad. >> is all this hate wrong? >> i think hate is what makes america special. in most countries they hate one group of people. saudi arabians love muslims and hit women. palestinians hate -- you know, here we hate everybody. there is a slice of everyone where you can hate everybody. every group in america has a hate group. >> hatred breeds some strange equality. brooke, what do you think? >> i think the freedom to hate is what makes this country great. i really, really mean that. the corner stone

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a new study says honolulu, hawaii is the priciest city in the u.s.on lulieu is followed by anchorage, alaska, and san francisco, california. the city with the lowest business cost is tampa, florida. for more news, click on cbs money watch.com. in new york, i'm farnoosh torabi. >>> and we're following breaking news from downtown. let's go to captain mike perry to find out what it's all g. -- about. >> reporter: we have university of maryland police, and baltimore city fire at the university of maryland hospital campus. now, this is at the corner of grain and lombard street. apparently a fire department hazmat crew is on the scene. we know very little of why they're here. other than to investigate some sort of leak inside the hospital property. there are about 5 pieces of fire apparatus, currently on lombard street. this is going to be west of green street. you see fire perm, meeting at this time. we have not learned of any evacuations at the university of maryland hospital campus at this point. but well there is plenty of activity here. and as we cont

. >> hope it's to hawaii because a new study shows hawaiian airlines did the best job inform flyers. airtran came in a close second, mostly due to its low rate of losing or mishandling bags. southwest airlines had the lowest passenger complaint rate while delta had the worst baggage and highest number of complaints out of all 18 airlines in the study. at the very bottom of the overall quality list are american eagle. atlantic southeast and calm air. vick, back to you. >> thank you. >>> researchers say fewer passengers boarded planes last year but those who did were generally treated better that in the past. >>> drivers are watching as gas prices climb. the average price per gallon of regular is inching closer to $3. derek val court explains what is behind the gum happen in the this report. >> reporter: chances are you've noticed it too. gas prices are slowly inching their way closer to the $3 mark. no need to tell loyola college student an person, filling her tank cost $67. >>> it limits me to where i can drive too. >> reporter: as the temperatures go up every spring it seems, so too