one vote, jim burns, one vote jarret johnson, to vote -- two vot3es, arlie rice. >> the live free or die state where the new libertarian renaissance is going to happen. everybody should visit. in new hampshire, libertarians led the fight for marriage equality under law, the regulating home schooling, and we secured the right to film cops on duty. we also elect libertarians every single year in new hampshire. new hampshire cast this vote this follow. gary johnson, 5, max abramson, two, and one for nine of the above. -- none of the above. [applause] >> the great state of new mexico, her home where the state question is red or green, celebrating its 100th anniversary as a stake in the united states of america, protests all seven of our delegate votes for gary johnson, the next president of the united states. >> new york, home of the statue of liberty, cast the following boats, gary johnson 24, rice aid, carl pearson, one, and jim burns, one. >> the tar heels of the great state of north carolina respectfully cockboat -- respectfully vote hell no to amendment 1 and we vote rewrote -- 3 vo

[applause] >> i nominate jim burns for vice-president of the united states. >> jim burns has been nominated. further nominations from the floor? seeing none, i will close -- sorry, i see one more. >> i am mary o'connor from minnesota. i nominate sam sloan for vice- president. >> i am sorry, i have been informed by his secretary that he is not eligible. further nominations? >> i nominate jim gray for vice- president. >> he was already nominated. if you like to nominate someone please come to the microphone. >> i have been informed that nominations are supposed to be in writing, so those who have done the nominating, there are three names that the secretary is already in possession of. the go-ahead and state your nomination, but submitted to the secretary. >> i am from the great state of florida. and nominate -- i nominate nota, none of the above. >> another seconding for jim byrnes. >> seeing no further nominations, nominations are closed. unless there are any objections, we will have the nominating and seconding speeches in that order which the candidates were nominated. that nominating spe

none of the above. >> jim burns for vice president. >> another second for jim burns.all right, seeing no further nominations, nominations are closed. unless there are any objections we'll have the nominating and seconding speeches in the order in which the candidates were nominated. so could the nominators speakers come up to the podium? and stand in queue, and we'll get the show on the road. all right, nominators for judge jim gray please come to the microphone. >> good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, my name is jim lark from virginia. i have the great pleasure of nominating judge jim gray to serve as our vice presidential candidate. [cheers and applause] as you're probably aware, jim is a distinguished jurist having spend 20 years and more as a superior court judge. he is the author of several books, including "why are drug laws have failed," and the vot voter's handbook, "handbook to america's problems." his knowledge on the war on drugs. his ability to reach out to young people. his experience as a candidate and demonstrated ability with the media make him a supe

. >> jim burns has been placed into nomination. further nominations.g no for the nominations, nominations are closed. -- further nominations, nominations are closed. so the process that we are going to follow for presentations and nominating speeches is we will randomly select putting on a piece of paper the numbers one through four. they can edits are their representatives. the was elected member from -- it looks like nobody has -- does will be the number they are nominated. it will give their nominating speeches. >> will one person from each of the campaigns come forward to select a slip of piece of paper. that will determine the order in which they are allowed to give their speeches. lee wrights will be presented first. [applause] jim burns 3rd. i wonder who goes last. mr. nealson. drumroll. big surprise. governor johnson will go fourth. all right. will the nominators, up to the podium. >> he will flash a five minute warning to the candidates when they are running low on time. direct them to stop at the appropriate time. >> my dear friends, five yea

. -- jim burns. >> jim burns has been placed into nomination. further nominations. seeing no for the nominations, nominations are closed. -- further nominations, nominations are closed. so the process that we are going to follow for presentations and nominating speeches is we will randomly select putting on a piece of paper the numbers one through four. they can edits are their representatives. the was elected member from -- it looks like nobody has -- does will be the number they are nominated. it will give their nominating speeches. >> will one person from each of the campaigns come forward to select a slip of piece of paper. that will determine the order in which they are allowed to give their speeches. lee wrights will be presented first. [applause] carl pearsons will be second. jim burns 3rd. i wonder who goes last. mr. nealson. drumroll. big surprise. governor johnson will go fourth. all right. will the nominators, up to the podium. >> he will flash a five minute warning to the candidates when they are running low on time. direct them to stop at the appropriat

jim burns. [applause] >> i am retired now, but i used to work, and after work we would get together and have some libations and so forth, and bring up several different subjects and in general, have a good time. this reminds me of a story that i heard about three doctors that were all surgeons. they were having drinks and they got an idea about who would design the best body for a surgeon to operate upon. the first one said, an electrician. because they would have everything color-coded and everything would have a place and everything would go in its place. the next said no, it would be an architect. form and function. the third one said such a body already exists. you see, it is politician. a politician has no heart, no guts, and no backbone. his head and his ass are interchangeable. [applause] i ran across a couple of quotes from a dr. edward hale, who was a minister. one of them was that they asked him, do you pray for senators? he lived in the d.c. area. he said, i have seen the senators. i

. >> jim burns has been placed in nomination. further nominations.ing no further nominations, nominations are closed. the process that we are going to follow for presentations and nominating speeches is we are going to randomly select, putting on a piece of paper the numbers one through four. the candidates or their representatives will select and number from -- it looks like no one has a hat, so we will put it in the top of our hands. those will be the order in which they are nominated and give their nominating speeches and seconded. well, we had a bag. that is good. yes, i will one person from each of the campaigns come forward to select a slip of paper, and that will determine the order in which they are allowed to give their speeches. wright will be presented first. [applause] [inaudible] will be second. jim burns third. [applause] g, and i wonder who goes last. mr. nelson. drumroll. big surprise. governor johnson will go forth. -- fourth. all right. [applause] will the nominators and second years for mr. wright , up to the podium -- nominators a

. >> clydesdale jim burn. >> stephanie: clydesdale dressage horse. >> that would be one heck of a dressagewanted to throttle him. >> 500 and swhafer -- whatever, 40,000 from bain capital. >> patrick has gotten on board to support bain. >> so has dianne feinstein. >> oh, please. >> stephanie: i was going to say that with the video with chris christie and cory booker looked like a scene from the sopranos. you're like whatever. >> i don't know anything about -- >> stephanie: a character's name. >> yeah. >> stephanie: someone would not shine a spotlight at it, it might have slipped by unnoticed! >> hard to slip by. >> people have dvrs. >> i leave for a month and you guys haven't worked that out? >> stephanie: they're going to put that on a loop with a ring tone. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: big [ bleep ] [ bleep ] [ bleep ] hey, speaking of which, how about that segue? did you hear about the preacher? there's good news on marriage equality polling and all of that. then there's this guy. yet another homophobic north carolina preacher. >> pastor worley. >> he's fun. >> stephanie: we hope no relati

jim cantore, thank you. >>> an update on the wildfires burning across seven states. in arizona, more than 1,000 firefighters are working around the clock to contain the stubborn gladiator fire. high temperatures and low humidity are making things quite difficult. better news in northern colorado, where crews say a fire that forced evacuations has now been nearly contained. scientists are warning that dry, dangerous conditions will get worse as the summer wears on. and take a look at this incredible scene as a tornado crossed a road last night near wichita, kansas. there were 17 reported tornadoes across that state in a matter of hours. no one was hurt, though the twisters did damage several homes and take out trees in their paths. >>> still ahead as "nightly news" continues on this sunday, corporate spies on the payroll. the fbi's new mission to target employees stealing secrets from their own companies. costing the u.s. economy billions. >>> and later, a 28th birthday, $19 billion, and wedded bliss. what's not to like? ht >>> we're back now with an unusual public aw

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jim crow. they saw cross burnings. with that though they were working-class people.oni worked as a domestic and papa worked as a laborer. they had been mccarthyites in the 20s and they joined the naacp. i was active in in the naacp youth council. i was an honor student and i was in the choir. at a sense of what was going on. we collected food to send to the civil rights workers in the south and distributing that stuff to the communities. pot died when i was 12 years old so was just me and nooni. it was this thing up wanting to be a man, figuring that out in an dr. king got killed. i was enraged and angry. the day after this i went to school and on the fringes you know, on television you would see stokely carmichael and you would see h. rab round and you would see bobby seale and huey newton and the news described them as the black militant. core stokely was talking about lack power. i want to back up and talk about power because all of my lessons in black history, don't want you to think it was over the dinner table with books spread out. pot was a working man and he

engine aboard a jumbo jet started to come apart, spewing burning hot debris on a suburb, and it happens more often than i might think as abc's jim tells us. >> reporter: canadian aviation authorities today confirmed it was raining hot metal yesterday. >> i picked it up. it was really hot. >> reporter: shards from air canada 777 engine that exploded on takeoff from toronto, falling thousands of feet, red hot missiles, damaging four cars. >> we had a failure of some time which resulted in the back end of the engine falling apart. debris is rare, but parts do occasionally fall from all over the plane, endangering those on the ground. this fuselage panel landed in a time mall parking lot. in 2000, 747 engine parts scattered sunbathers at an l.a. beach. in 2010, the world's biggest plane, a qantas a360, nearly crashed when its engine fell apart on takeoff. this must have made for a tough landing. a british plane lost the wheels on its landing gear somewhere over the english countryside. and fuselage break-ups can be scar, even deadly for those in the air too. a flight attendant was ejected when an aloha airlines 737 ripped wide open,

jim cramer. see you tomorrow. >>> this morning on "early today," diplomatic flip-flop. chinese activist who decided to leave the u.s. embassy now fears for his life. >>> burning issue, a new jersey woman answers charges after allegedly taking her 5-year-old in a tanning booth. >>> and shock value. an original version of "the scream" smashes art sales records. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> this is "early today" for thursday, may 3rd, 2012. >>> hello, good morning i'm lynn berry. today we begin with switching gears. blind chinese dissident chen guangcheng changed his mind after leaving the u.s. embassy yesterday, he wants to leave beijing and is appealing for the u.s. to step in to save his family. nbc's ian williams reports from beijing. >> reporter: chen was brought to the hospital by the u.s. ambassador. officials say he left the u.s. embassy voluntarily, after six days. preferring to stay in china after assurances from the chinese authorities about his safety. they said he never once asked for asylum, one official said chinese authorities assured chen he wouldn't be mistreated. and his allegations of abuse would be investigated. they pro

burning parts from the sky on to cars below. jim avila with the latest. good morning, jim. >> reporter: good morning, robin. in fact, it was scary moments both in the air and on the ground as the engine began to break apart and burn. severely testing the industry standard that these passenger jets must be able to fly even takeoff on one engine. listen as the pilot of the air canada 777 declares an emergency landing. >> we just want to confirm we have the trucks ready at the end of the runway. >> a full response. they'll be there for you. >> reporter: the jumbo jet carrying 318 passengers from toronto to tokyo had lost half of its takeoff power. one of its two engines blowing at a critical time, liftoff. >> we had i guess people culling in saying they saw smoke and flames coming from the plane. >> reporter: as the pilot turns back to the airport, thousands of feet below, parts of the plane's engine begin to rain down on a toronto suburb. hot metal falling to earth shattering glass and frightening drivers. >> i said, oh, my god, what is this and heard a big

demonstrations historically in this country, ever since the vietnam war and what jim said about prolifers not getting coverage, when they burneddoctors and nurses and sometimes killed them, that certainly got attention. the idea that the right wing doesn't get coverage when it protest, i would have to disagree with that statement. >> jon, can i jump in there, alan you smeared the prolife movement there. there are tens of millions of prolifers, who demonstrate, who wave signs, who never have committed any act of violence at all, who condemn those who do. >> the tea party is another example -- >> let's talk about the prolife movement. the immediate that has completely ignored them. >> it has a tremendous amount of coverage, it got coverage a summer and a half ago when it started. i disagree thattor with that. >> the prolifers have been demonstrating on the mall since roe v. wade and it's been measured, they get no coverage relative to 13 people protesting against exxon or something. jon: one of the problems in chicago is that you don't -- they have so many protests going on, or so many people are upset about so many things, thin

jim, relax, everything will be fine. i'm be right with you. nothing is going to happen to you. >> edwards is burnedhis body. trapped inside the blaze, he had wondered if his time had come. >> the fire and everything was about ten foot away from me and from all of that heat and everything it was heating me alive and i couldn't go know where it was scary and i was just wondering if i was ever going to see the next day or not. i figured this was the end. >> over the next three years, edwards undergoes a dozen surgeries. along the way he contracts an infection that ultimately claims his eyesight. despite his hardships, edwards remains positive. >> the good lord felt like it was not my time to go. i feel like i still have something to offer, to give to people. i'm blessed to be here still today. i talk to people about how important it is to not take anything for granted because you can lose everything in a flash. >> in ail, six people die in the fire. what went wrong to start this deadly blaze in the first place? turns out it's something that went unnoticed. accumulating for years. dust, polyethylene du

[helicopter blades whirring] >> jim rogers wanted us to see america's enormous dependency on coal, so he flew us out to one of his 20 coal-burningplants. >> i remember the first time i took a helicopter to look down at a power plant like this, i was 41 years old, and i said, "oh, my goodness, i'm responsible for that?" >> rogers is the ceo of duke energy, the nation's third largest electric utility. his smoke stacks pump out 100 million tons of carbon dioxide every year, which makes what comes out of rogers' mouth so surprising. controlling carbon emissions in the near future is inevitable in your view. this is gonna happen. >> it's inevitable, in my judgment. >> you're one of the biggest polluters in the world when it comes to carbon emissions. >> we're one of the largest emitters, and it tells you how daunting the challenge is that we have in front of us. >> you know, there are a lot of people, many of them in your industry, many people that you probably know, who say that global warming is not a big problem. >> it's my judgment it is a problem. we need to go to work on it now. and it's critical that we start to act in this co

was really concerned because it was burning very hot, very rapidly, and so i knew that possibly something could happen at any moment. >> helicopter news reporter jimhe accident. >> we arrived on scene, we could actually see jets of flame coming out of the cracks of the tank on the ground. i mean, it was shooting just big jets of flame. >> jim stays upwind of the inferno, unsure what the train cars are carrying. >> you always want to know where the wind is. you want to be real cautious because, obviously, if it's a toxic chemical, you don't want to end up downwind of a train derailment and get any of the smoke or fumes that come off of it. >> on the ground, j.t. langston from the luther volunteer fire department is one of the first on the scene. >> it was going pretty good. the fire was going pretty hot and heavy there when we got there. >> the fire department doesn't know what the train cars are carrying, either. >> i didn't know what was in them or how bad it was at that point in time. i just knew that we needed to get on it pretty quick or we were going to have trouble. >> luther fire chief brian martin is faced with the most dangerous situation

burned down. have any of you -- it is a terrible movie. have any of you seen ride with the devil? jewel is in it and not a particularly good actress. jim ka veez he will is in it and toeb maguire and the love story part is terrible but for the first 30 minutes they portray guerilla warfare in missouri and gives you an idea of how brutal it could be and they had to deal with this difficult situation. so they did what had been done in maryland earlier. they used the military to arrest guerilla fighters and people who helped guerillas. beginning in september of 1861 they added an innovation to these arrests. they began to use military commission trials to deal with civilians who aided guerillas and deal with the guerillas themselves. this system was instituted by a game named john fremont. that's him in the corner. he was the first republican candidate for president in 1856 and during the sif war was a prominent politician and given a general's commission. he was put in charge of missouri, and in september 1861 john fremont declared marshal law. in this declaration of marshal law he did a couple things. he said i am going to free the slav

jim iuor iuorio. keith, i want to begin with you. late last week you made a call, saying i'm dipping in. i'm buying. maybe you got burned on friday. more than made up for it today most likely. is this a short-term pop or the beginning of something fresh and good for the summer? >> i think this is definitely a short-term pop. and primarily, it's a matter of where we go from here with not having a lot of upside. like 1330 for me, if you can close above that, that might be something that gets me excited. but the problem is the data. and the data comes back on wednesday. you're going to start to go to new home sales. if that disappoints, that would be a problem. i think the durable goods estimates are pretty high. and then finally, you the michigan consumer confidence number on friday. i think the estimates for that too high too. so into the long weekend, you know, my move from here would most definitely be to sale. >> jonathan, do you agree? >> we have a street high estimate for the s&p of 1475. but i think the next couple of months are going to be really sloppy. first of all we don't have a resolution on greece for about a month unt

jim avila, abc news, washington. >>> and a an enorm wildfire raging in new mexico has become that state's largest fire ever. so far more than 170,000 acres and 12 homes have burnedd it is still growing at this hour. about 1200 firefighters are now on the ground facing low humidity and shifting winds. experts say the massive fire is just a preview of what's to come after months of dry conditions out west. >> don't like to hear that at all. here's your thursday forecast, everybody. it's going to be windy with hail and a chance of tornadoes from birmingham to nashville. i love it when i can say hail. >> hail. >> and you aren't cursing. >> little rock and shreveport. thunderstorms in florida, scattered showers from seattle to billings. >> what the hail is the temperature again? >> it's going to be haley. >> 74 in boise. 91 in sacramento. 103 in phoenix. 58 in chicago. 67 in kansas city. upper 80s from dallas to miami. 91 in atlanta. 83 here in new york. >> don't you love what we can get away with on this show? >> it's amazing. i don't know how i haven't been fired yet. >>> what would a friday eve be without something of a religious symbol seen in an everyday item li

jim tweets, because it's the only weightlifting i do every day. anything lighter won't give me the same burn michael tweets i can't carry six small cups with my double meet, double bacon, double cheese, double-decker bigger. my dentist and doctor are counting on the income my thirst for soda will generate to stay in business. doctors, too, operating rooms and so forth, the whole point. >> the ripple effect. >> goes to the larger issue of obesity in the country and health care. front and center about a very important issue. >> very interesting to see what the reaction is from the likes of coca-cola, pepsi, fast-food restaurants. they are essentially under attack. >> attempts to try to ban vending machines in schools, for example, that dispense soda and things like that. >> someone from pepsi or coke might argue, you know this more than most, growth is in other areas, waters and noncarbonated drinks. >> a bigger growth trajectory but revenue in dollars and percentage, bigger in carbonated. they need the carbonated to sale to sell the rest. >> interesting to hear comments out of chicago with pm

jim burns. [applause] >> i am retired now, but i used to work, and after work we would get together and have some libations and so forth, and bring up several different subjects and in general, have a good time. this reminds me of a story that i heard about three doctors that were all surgeons. they were having drinks and they got an idea about who would design the best body for a surgeon to operate upon. the first one said, an electrician. because they would have everything color-coded and everything would have a place and everything would go in its place. the next said no, it would be an architect. form and function. the third one said such a body already exists. you see, it is politician. a politician has no heart, no guts, and no backbone. his head and his ass are interchangeable. [applause] i ran across a couple of quotes from a dr. edward hale, who was a minister. one of them was that they asked him, do you pray for senators? he lived in the d.c. area. he said, i have seen the senators. i