idaho. idaho! idaho. and how do you know you're getting idaho potatoes? well...uh... uhm... heh.. potatoes come from idaho. so if you want the best, you have to do one important thing. always look for the grown in idaho seal. i knew that. i knew that. look for the grown in idaho seal. . >>> a story that's ruined thousands of lives took another sad turn this weekend when the oldest son of bernie madoff committed suicide. his name was mark madoff and hanged himself in his new york apartment two years to the day his dad was arrested. in the largest ponzi scheme in american history. bernie madoff you remember swindled $50 billion from investors. many victims were relatives, longtime family friends. there's been a lot of speculation about whether he might attend his son's funeral. he's serving a life sentence in a north carolina prison. i think about 150-year sentence. joe johns joins me with the latest. what do we know about how all this tran pird, joe? >> it's pretty awful. police say mark madoff hanged himself with a dog leash in his apartment in soho. it was attached to a ceiling p

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the presiding officer: the senator from idaho. mr. risch: i understand we've four and a half minutes left, plus my ten minutes at the very end. the presiding officer: that's correct. mr. risch: and senator corker has indicated that he would like to take those 4 1/2 minutes. so i would yield the floor to senator corker. mr. corker: thank you, senator. i appreciate that very much, mr. president. i appreciate the courtesy. i wanted to follow up -- i think senator kerry was down here earlier today talking a little bit about proceeding. i know we have people in the cloakroom wondering how we go forward with the amendment process. so i just thought, if i could enter into a conversation with him through this, this, unlike most procedures, where you have a 60-vote cloture, you're -- your ability or your strength on the issue itself rises because it actually takes 67 votes or two-thirds of those voting to actually ratify a treaty. so it is not like when a cloture vote goes by here and you go from a 60-vote cloture from 51. in this case you're

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thank you to the good senator from idaho. mr. harkin: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from iowa. mr. harkin: mr. president, with the close of the 111th congress, the senate will lose one of its most popular, articulate, and outspoken members and i will lose a kindred spirit, a fellow progressive populist, senator byron dorgan, who has spent his entire four decades in elective office fighting on behalf of family farmers and ranchers, struggling small businesses, ordinary working americans, anyone -- anyone who's been run roughshod over by big business, big banks, or big government. both senator dorgan and i are proud of our roots in rural upper midwest. i was raised in cumming, iowa, population 162. he was raised in regent, north dakota, population 211. byron always liked to joke that he graduated in the top ten of his class of nine students. senators on both sides of the aisle have come to respect and admire senator dorgan's distinctive voice here in the senate, a voice that mixes keen intelligence with a great sense of humor, plus a

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idaho. idaho! idaho. and how do you know you're getting idaho potatoes? well...uh... uhm... heh.. (sighs) not all potatoes come from idaho. so if you want the best, you have to do one important thing. always look for the grown in idaho seal. i knew that. i knew that. look for the grown in idaho seal. when it comes to investing, no one person has all the answers. so td ameritrade doesn't give me just one person. questions about retirement? i talk to their retirement account specialists. bonds? grab the phone. fixed-income specialist. td ameritrade knows investors sometimes need real, live help. not just one broker... a whole team there to help... to help me decide what's right for me. people with answers at td ameritrade. get up to $500 when you open an account. >>> an emotional member of congress is on jack cafferty's mind. he's here with the cafferty file. jack, good to see you. you're kind of an emotional guy. >> weeper of the house is what joy behar has dubbed incoming speaker john boehner after his teary-eyed performance on cbs's "60 minutes." he got choked up several times in

specifically idaho is really going to get a lot of snow during the day today with more pure powder forki resorts. you can see from boise all the way to twin falls, we have on and off snow at this current time. a forecast is calling for another 3 to 6, possibly 12 inches of snow at higher elevations. the cities down in the lower valleys will definitely see less. the forecast for today, showery and snowy throughout much of the interior west. california warming up a bit.sno. crescent city, showers, same for eugene and astoria. thursday's forecast coming right up. >> thanks, bill. >>> also coming up, more euro debt problems. wall street thinks it knows the next wikileaks target. your early business headlines are straight ahead. >>> plus, with an acting career in high gear, looking at a possible nomination is justin timberlake ready to give it all up for a weekly tv show? >>> coming up on battle of the bigs in the big apple, the lakers struggle again and a finish in college hoops. >>> you're watching "early today." >>> good morning, and welcome back to "early today." i'm lynn berry. here ar

tonight a new addition, mark from idaho.ot tall snowman that looks like a ku klux klansman in his yard. he thought it would be a good idea to give his snowman a news and a hood. okay snow is white, he couldn't help that, but who makes a pointy snowball? as you might imagine, the snowman is getting a chilly reception. was he really dreaming of a white separatist christmas? he says no way. let's see if you buy this. >> it's a snowman. i mean, there's nothing hateful about it that i could see. >> reporter: why do you think people are offended. >> hell if i know. they want to cause trouble. >> i have to say the confederate flag flying over his shoulder didn't do much to support his hell if i know defense. back in july he also had an aryan nations flag and an ss flag in his yard. the good news is, unlike the flags, this latest controversy will eventually just melt away. as the columnist earl wilson once says snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough. but the cold fact remains, mark f

and idaho is going to get nailed with another significant snowstorm tonight. we'll be back with your friday outlook, lynn. >> bill, thanks so much. >>> coming up, stocks sizzle, job numbers improve and a piece of history goes up for auction. but who would want it? the early morning business headlines are straight ahead. >>> plus, is snoop dogg planning on rubbing elbows with royalty across the pond? >>> nets and thunder need triple overtime. a possible final four preview, and what has gotten into the lakers? you're watching "early today." >>> good morning, and welcome back to "early today." i'm lynn berry. here are some of your top headlines this morning. england's newspaper "the independent" reports that wikileaks founder julian assange is in a secret location out side of london. he's informed police there of his whereabouts but they've been unable to arrest him because swedish authorities made a mistake when filing his arrest warrant. yesterday his lawyer called the allegations of rape and sexual molestation a persecution and not a prosecution adding that hi

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the presiding officer: the senator from idaho. mr. risch: mr. president, and, senator kerry, i respect that. i would remind everyone that i filed the letter dated december 17, senator kerry and senator lugar from six members of the commission including james schlesinger, which says that dealing with this imbalance is urgent, referring to the tactical weapons -- dealing with this imbalance is urgent and some commissioners would give priority to this over taking further steps to reduce the number of operationally deployed stratigic nuclear weapons. i agree both are important. i thank the good chairman, ranking member for a very good dialogue on >> the amendment was defeated by a vote of 60 to 32. the senate returns tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. and resumes debate on amendments. also this week, a continuing resolution on government funding. the senate could also take up the defense authorization bill and a bill to provide aid for some 9/11 first responders. live coverage of the senate on c-span2. next, "q&a" with documentary filmmaker dan reed. then prime

idaho is known for its pizza, number one. it's pretty tasty. i like that.ano on there. let's eat the whole thing right now. >> let's do it. >> jimmy: eat the whole pizza. before social distortion comes out. >> this is awesome. >> jimmy: this is very good. [ cheers and applause ] you're serious about this. like, you went to a pizza convention even? >> oh, my gosh. yeah. but they had full-on like -- uniforms. >> jimmy: who did? >> the other pizza makers. >> jimmy: oh, they did? >> and all i saw were people's nostrils because their noses were turned up to us the entire time because we were in t-shirts. >> jimmy: you can't just show up without t-shirts on. >> no. i'm going to ask john bravados or someone to make us -- >> jimmy: some sort of designer >> the most incredible full uniform aprons and we're going to go there next year. >> jimmy: you ever deliver these pizzas because i think you could make a lot of tips probably. [ cheers and applause ] well, it's very good to see you. thank you for bringing the pizza. >> eat the end because -- you know what, this is

the presiding officer: the senator from idaho. a senator: mr. president, fellow senators, i rise today to speak very briefly about this issue. mr. risch: this easily could be "the" most serious issue that we deal with in recent years and in future years. we have an enemy today that is at the door. this is an enemy that is out there somewhere and you can talk about philosophically. it's an enemy that is at the door. last year, the federal government spent around $3.8 trillion. that really doesn't mean anything to me or probably much to anybody because nobody knows what $3.8 trillion is. if you say it's a little over $7 million a minute, it starts to sound a little bit more like you could understand it. but none of that is important. it's how much do you have. and the federal government was short 41% of that money. 41 cent out of every dollar -- 41 cents out of every dollar that the united states government spent it borrowed. i hope everyone listened closely to the senator from nebraska when he said that if we funded only social security, medicare

let me just correct one fact for a minute that both the senator from texas and the senator from idaho said. they said that the russians will not have to reduce their strategic warheads here and that they're already below the number of 1,550. that is not accurate. and i won't go into detail here. we can reinforce this tomorrow in a classified session, but the russians do have to reduce warheads under this requirement, not as much as us, but our defense community has made the judgment that because of our triad, which will remain robust, and for other reasons, we have a very significant advantage here. again, i'll discuss that tomorrow in the classified briefing. what i would like to say to my colleague here is that, again, i am 100% prepared to try to embrace this concept even further in the resolution of ratification but we cannot do it in a way that requires this treaty to go back and be renegotiated. and there's a simple, really simple -- this is not a complicated amendment -- there's a very simple reason why we should oppose this amendment as it is now, because of the requirement th

the presiding officer: the senator from idaho. mr. risch: first i want to thank the chairman of the committee and the ranking member of the committee for the cooperation that we have had throughout this matter, and i -- as i said when i started my debate on this, i really believe everyone's working in good faith, in the best interests of the united states to attempt to develop and ratify a treaty that will be in the best interests of the united states. i was particularly encouraged this morning to hear the chairman of the committee indicate that he believes that the substance of what we're talking about here is an important issue, and i know he believes that. i know that the intelligence community believes it. i know that a lot of other parties that are involved with this believe that this is a very important issue. and we're going to talk about why this is an attorney issue as we go forward. after all, when we're dealing with a subject like this, we're talking about the security, the people of the united states of america, it is not

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miller was taken into custody as soon as the plane landed in idaho. oakland expects to lose hundreds of federal government jobs in the new year. the federal emergency management agency could move 247 workers from oakland possibly to sacramento. the national park service plans to relocate 166 employees to san francisco where -- where the works, often have to travel for meetings. >>> a safety improvement project at some caltrain crossings will require overnight lane closures along the tracks in alpo alto -- palo alto. the city of palo alto has released information that you should be aware, the work that will start on charleston road this sunday through march 3rd. the work is scheduled to finish at its fourth and final location on alma street on june the 12th. >>> a santa cruz county business raked in food donations over the holidays thanks to their unique offer. the medical marijuana dispensary in so cal offered a free marijuana cigarette for every pound that was brought in. the food was donated to the second harvest food bank. i'm sure they were very p

. >> the idaho falls post register daily. >> withheld being among the past growing states, d.c. that moving out of the north ways and the midwest toward the west or other factors that might have contributed to the bump in population idaho experience? >> we share all the speculation she went through and we cannot wait to dive into this and get more information about the patterns of migration. there are tons of demographer is working on answers to your question. i do not think of any of us know. >> thank you everybody for joining us. you can go to census.gov. this presentation is on the web site as well as materials we're handing out in the room and a transcript of the directors remarks. you love posted within 24 hours of full transcript. and thank you all. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] >> thursday we will hear more about the 2010 census from the census bureau director robert groves. he will be a guest on "washington journal." that is said 7:45 a.m. eastern here on c-span. every 10 years the results

. >> my brother-in-law and my sister and i have a pizza place in sun valley, idaho.ne of the most beautiful places in the world. >> jimmy: i've been there. what's the name of the pizza place? >> it's called mcclane's pit pizzeria and we rock. >> jimmy: why is it called mcclane's -- >> because my brother-in-law's named mcclane. he's this big tated earring guy. he looks like mr. clean. like a really good looking version of mr. clean. but he has a recipe, pizza recipe that's 30 years old. and i frantically baked pizzas because the hotel i live in here -- well, when i'm here, i live in the [ bleep ] not the chateau like every other actor. >> jimmy: is it good to give out your address on television? >> oh, no, why did i just -- oh, my god. >> jimmy: we'll bleep it out but -- >> that was stupid. >> jimmy: i want you guys to promise not to go there. >> yeah, so -- that's so stupid. >> jimmy: yeah, yeah. >> whoa. >> jimmy: might want to switch to another -- hotel. >> they were supposed to bake the pizzas and the guy who owns it is one of my close friends and he said, look, m