his father, randall ivins was a second-generation proprietor of ivins drugs, established in 1893. there were prominent family of well-known people in randall was himself a graduate of prince university. he was well-liked, very generous to a fault. not much of a businessman, the very gregarious person. bruce ivins however grew up in a home that was not norman rockwell. his mother, mary ivins was a fierce presence. she exerted tyrannical dominance over the home. she was mentally and physically cruel. she attacked versus father, randall, with whatever was at hand. it could be approved, could be a fork. one night it was the skillet to the head. and she micromanaged bruce more than her prodigy. pursue schoolmates interviewed dozens of people who would come up with grusin in those formative years. schoolmates, teachers, other townspeople of lebanon. and she told me that every items had left a mark on bruce, a lasting and hunting mark. so from an early age, bruce however was a scientifically gifted student. however, he was socially isolated. he never could fit in for whatever reason. yet

ivins. >> his reputation was that of an extraordinary microbiologist. he did the truly preliminary snapshot assessments of this material because he was so good at what he did. >> he was just fascinated with the way it was just like a mist. it was so light, you couldn't weigh it. it was very dangerous stuff. >> narrator: ivins and the scientists at the army's bio-lab said this was something new. unlike the wet anthrax they worked with, the powder was dry and very deadly. >> he was the first one to describe it as "energetic." the material literally would float and waft within the bag, for instance. and so, when anyone brought a hand near the bag, a lot of these spores would migrate towards the hand. >> narrator: they knew this highly floatable anthrax was something special. ivins wrote a report for the fbi. "these are not garage spores. the nature of the spore preparation suggests very highly that professional manufacturing techniques were used in the production and purification of the spores.

is that connected to bruce ivins attack or is that completely false information? >> there are a lot of letters that chile with a number of the country that were hoax letters. there was no other letter in any part of the world that contained this unique batch of anthrax either mainstream, lie of anthrax spores of any kind were certainly anthrax with spores that were derived from this. >> the one that people have the letters sent to them least with anthrax, why were they specifically targeted by bruce? >> that's a great question and i should point out that there were four letters the were recovered. appears there were a total of five letters read the letter that was sent to the office of the national enquirer was never recovered. the shall inquire gets tons of junk mail and the threat of and it is almost immediately incinerated regrettably to this investigation there was a plume of anthrax that was mapped from the mailroom at the company inquirer all along the path where the deliver was delivering the mail and ernesto came down from this and survived. but why those

. >> smith: disprooortionally molly ivins, terry southern, don barthelme.a handful of people on here and i thouggt that was interesting.ú again that'')s accidental. you didn't -- >> borowitz: it is although -- >> borowitz: it is although i would say what texas has going for it in american comedd, if i can just getta little, dooa littte guess work here. >> smith: okay. >> borowitz: texas hassa real outsider status. texas as many people here know, there are people in texas who consider this sort the rest of the country andm if, and i think it produces, think has sometimes -- has had that opinion. [laughter] >> smith: has been known to have that opinion. >> borowitzz -- have that pinion. yeah. but i think, i think there are certain regions of the country that create kind of an outsider feeling. i for one maybe i relate to this because i'm from cleveland, ohio and i -- i grew up in the 70s whenú cleveland was really considered in many corners a national joke. our river -- >> smith: the mistake on >> borowitz: yeah, our -- you know which is something thaa sounds

and older and he demanded both attention and approval and those are two things for the life of birds ivins. he saw these and strange kennon ways and manipulative ways. he's held grudges and pursues them almost invariably anonymously in ways that allow him to elude accountability for his misdeeds. he went to the university of cincinnati it would really cast some of his destiny. he also will have a declined invitation and she forgot bruce never did. the rejection to your membership from that point on he was on a vendetta to harass the torment will leave the institution but other members. this was in full evidence after he received his ph.d. and the university from california. he took to the commit a woman he took a shine to. nancy was an attractive woman, track to the qtr fix student in the someone who clearly had what you think it would have to have a dynamic career. was a peculiar of normally strange close friendship. this enraged him then proceeded for decades. most notably in the early stages he drove back to chap chapel hid broken to a room where her notebook was kept in a lot of you i

. >> the fbi eventually concluded frederick scientist bruce ivins was behind the attack which killedpeople. he committed suicide in 2008. >> president obama is marking the 23rd anniversary of world a.i.d.s. day, with a major announcement. and mary is in the newsroom with the story. mary is this. >> reporter: well -- pairy? >> reporter: well, denise. president obama announced we will fight. and announced an additional fund will go toward combattling -- combatting hiv and a.i.d.s. the mission is 2 million more than the original target. the president also urged other countries with major economies, including china, to give money to the global a.i.d.s. fund. over the last decade, the pandemic has claimed 30 million lives. >> while the rate of new infections is going down elsewhere, president obama night noted it -- president obama noted it is not going down in america. >>> and shutting down schools causing widespread damage. about 300,000 have lost power in southern california alone. >> reporter: this southern california gas station was mangled, after hurricane- strength winds toppled a

and half million dollars to settle the case and cast further cloud on fbi's assertion that doctor ivins was a sole perpetrator am also concerned about two of the issues for icing out of anthrax investigation. first and respond to press accounts, threatening the government's case against dr. ivan can't give you and the department of justice does allow flying agents and attorneys be interviewed on national television. pay attention to this because this is another inconsistency between congressional oversight and with the fbi and justice department is willing to do for other people under other circumstances. despite his full and public access to the press that they have given fbi agents on national television, the department has denied access to laying agents as part of our investigation into ats operation fast and furious. now, how do you square that inconsistency? i want to know from director mueller why he allows laying agents to provide detailed interviews to the press on national television but repeatedly refuses to let the congress and the stat interview lined agents and attorneys. s

bruce ivins, who mr. wellman believes is responsible for those attacks. this is just under an hour. >> good afternoon. welcome to the forensic science institute. it's my for and privilege to introduce our speaker for this afternoon. he is david willman. mr. willman is an investigative journalist with "the los angeles times," and has been employed by them since 1995. prior to that he worked with the pasadena star news, and the san jose mercury news. in 2001, mr. willman was awarded the pulitzer prize for his work in the discovery of seven drugs that were erroneously approved by the food and drug administration. he has been the recipient of many other awards, including the national press club award, as well as the george polk award. that work was his work on presidential finance and the improper use of funds for presidential campaigns. the work of david willman has not simply been read and placed on a shelf. or in terms of newspapers, read and placed in the recycling bin. instead, his work has gone on to an

i will yield myself ivins to start. brandon, you said you're concerned about a hud's documentation requirements and i think you said that in order for you to be successful and access housing services, you had to show that you were almost four long time. is that correct? >> 60 days if i'm not mistaken for 14 days in one place. that would be inconvenient to put on the person i was staying with. i did not want to overstate my welcome. i was already asking a huge favor. i did not want to jeopardize my situation. >> it seems that you did not want to be homeless for a long time either. it defeats the purpose. and then you also said that the schools will recognize the homeless and provided the services. >> yes. >> i think that has been mentioned a couple of times. we have already worked with the schools and their definition. we are really trying to move this into the health and human services and hud to provide such help. why do the schools seem to have the ability to help homeless? >> at schools, the teachers are able to reco

it has been at a very tough job market reacted ivins is that generally speaking, statistically, not every people who have higher levels of education levels ofreemployed -- people who have higher levels of education can get reemployed. maybe you have to sell a house and change your kit's college. it can feel painful, but you can live on $60,000 a year. people who were making $20,000 a year cannot step down much more. it tends to be that across the spectrum, people lose jobs, but better educated people have more options to at least get back into the game. that is what statistics show. again, statistics suggest groups of people. it is not individuals, any one person's situation can be different. but on the issue of the unemployment benefits, that is something that is really being hotly debated. right now in congress, they are looking at extending unemployment benefits paid since 2008, the federal government has helped to extend unemployment benefits. that is a state function, but the federal government has been providing more money, so that people can get 99 weeks of unemployment in many cas

craig mel ivin is in stamford. >> reporter: good morning to you. when the 911 calls started coming in, firefighters rushed to the scene and saw what they described as walls of flames. despite that, they went in twice to try to save those three little girls and their grandparents. this morning officials say right now they believe they know what caused the deadly blaze. neighbors saw flames shooting as high as the trees and heard the trapped children screaming. >> there's a huge fire at the house next door to us, the whole house is on fire, it's a major fire and there's three kids and a woman. >> we have the fire on the way. >> please, please come quickly. >> reporter: firefighters arrived and found 47-year-old madonna badger on the roof frantic, shouting, desperately she tried directing firefighters to her family but the flames were too hot, the smoke too thick. >> after 37 1/2 years, 38 years on the job, you're never prepared for anything like this. it's heartbreaking. >> reporter: officials believe badger and her friend, mike, had started a fire i

. -- molly ivins, who is now past. she is very well known in texas politics. she was asked to talk about this texas politician she knew so well. >> they should understand why we are going to war. let's take the example you gave me. it was four months before the white house could figure out why we were doing it. one time it was jobs in the next time it was oil. finally they got it together and it was we had to get rid of nuclear systems and hussain. guess what we have still got? we did not accomplish any objectives. if i knock on your door and say i would like to borrow your son for the middle east so that this guy can have his throne back, you would probably hit me right in the mouth. >> i was writing about that format they had during the -- that's stupid tax reform idea that they had during the reagan years. i was talking about why it was a bad idea. if you make more than $17,000 a year, you are now in the same tax bracket as h.r. perot. i then added, comma, who makes more than $1 million a year. i made the fatal journalistic error, i did not check. the next