. >> jimmy: there's julia roberts.he's on the phone and you appear to be not answering phones, but rather making conversation with julia roberts. what was happening there? [ applause ] that looked incriminating. that was not good. >> no. i -- she was actually on my phone. i was on the phone with this woman from georgia and i -- we had been talking for awhile and julia salt down and i said, hey, you want to talk to julia roberts? and she said of course. i handed julia the phone and she was on my phone. >> jimmy: you passed her off? >> two for one. >> jimmy: that's quite a deal. how much did she give? do you write down the credit card information? >> no, they take that information before, we just talk to them. it was -- it was an emotional night. for a lot of reasons, but i had a lot of people calling in saying that their kids basically, the 7-year-old cracked open their piggy bank and gave their last $20 to -- >> jimmy: that's a nice thing. >> to be part of the chair tips that we were supporting. >> jimmy: absolutely. n

lindsey vonn and julia mancuso. >> julia mancuso. >> here's the deal. lindsey vonn was skiing down the hill. >> that's whathey do. >> she had an unfortunate accident. >> she broke her pinkie. >> she's okay, but broke her pinkie. julie mancuso was told to go down the hill right after this. they didn't make the communication that she was still wiped out on the side. so, they actually yellow flagged julia and asked her to stop in the middle of her run. >> and her run was extraordinary. >> she was flying. >> really good run. >> they asked her to go back up to the top and do it again. she placed 18th when she did it again. so, she was very upset that she placed 18th. she said she was frustrated, et cetera, and she was actually crying at the end. >> can you imagine how exhausted they are at this point? >> yeah. >> the crying is not so much what people seem to be concerned about. >> first of all -- >> what she said to a reporter for "sports illustrated" is the thing people are talking about. >> yeah. >> right? >> where is the quote? >> she says people are havi

that so inspired julia ward howe.tonight we are meeting to celebrate both the life of abraham lincoln and the vision of julia ward howe and her in mortal battle hymn. you are the true believers in the mystic chords of memory of the union president lincoln referred to and in the invasion of it expressed in julia ward howe's battle hymn of the republic. in the early 1990s, a virginia state highway marker was placed along route seven to denote president lincoln's grand review. the armored guard was under the review of captain of the fifth new york. a resident of bailey's crossroads at that time, was the late refugee from world war ii europe whose family had fled the ravages of europe after 1945, to come to america to start life anew. upon moving to bailey's, he came across information which told him the story of lincoln's grandview, and of mrs. house in mortal battle hymn. house had come he thought. that this great man, this great event, this great hymn of the soul of america are lost on all but forgotten here in norther

meryl streep nominated for "julia and julia" that never r never happened. 16th oscar nomination a record that won't ever be broken until she's nominated next year. john berman, abc new, new york. >>> sweet 16, meryl. good night to you. hope to see you tomorrow night. we'll be here. this is the "jeopardy!" college championship.

>> reporter: after lindsey vonn fell, breaking her finger -- >> meanwhile, here comes julia mancuso. >> reporter: julia mancuso began her race. >> because they lowered the interval times between racers -- >> reporter: while vonn still lay against a protective net, mancuso's run was abruptly stopped for safety reasons. >> but lindsey vonn -- >> whoa, now they've stopped her. >> reporter: after starting again, mancuso finished the day in 18th. >> it's just absolutely extraordinary bad luck for julia mancuso. >> it was a lot of emotion, a little stress and energy put into that run. >> reporter: she wrote on her facebook page, "imagine running a 400-meter sprint and then missing your time and making you run it again after five minutes. not easy." >> i know she's disappointed. i mean, i feel terrible. i mean, it's -- obviously, the course deteriorated a lot and i feel terrible, but you know, i crashed and, i mean, i don't want to crash myself, let alone to hurt my teammate's chances of getting a medal. >> reporter: still in the medal hunt in men's hockey, team usa beat switzerland. and in

our julia boorstin is joining us with a company first on cnbc. take it away, julia. >> thanks, trish. we are joined by jeff bewkes, ceo of time warner. jeff, thank you so much for joining us. >> good to be here, julia. >> time warner posted earnings of 55 cents a share on $7.3 billion in revenue, narrowly ahead of expectations and you're projecting a mid-teens percentage growth in 2010. how will you get there? >> yes. we're having a good year both this year and last year. we're going to continue the things that brought us a unique earnings growth last year. i think we were the only media company that had growth in earnings last year, basically led by our networks and very strong performance in the film company and we think this is teed up basically to do it again in 2010. we're pretty excited about the strength of our programming, acquired programming and our film slate, things like harry potter coming this next year and many more. >> you mentioned sub cryption revenues drew 11% last quarter. with so many programs out there can you sustain that k

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meryl streep, finally, in "julie & julia."verybody's talking about meryl streep here. >> it's meryl streep's 16th nomination. if she wins it would be her third win but still not close to katharine hepburn who had four. i'm rooting for "julie & julia which would have been in my top ten. i was still hoping... >> rose: for best movie in >> for best movie. i thought it might slip in there but i think it's between sandra bull wlok is a hollywood insider who's never received the kind of acclaim that is now being showered on her with "the blind side." between the two of them. but i just think meryl streep is always such a chameleon. by the way, for the past couple of years the oscar has gone to attractive women in deglamourized roles like halle barre for "monster's ball" even kate wednesday let in "the reader." so the fact that meryl streep is made to look much dowdier than she is, that may help her win. >> rose: stephanie? take a good look at any of the actresses you want to talk about but certainly meryl streep and sandra bullock.

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area, the owner julia is from chile. my brother is fine, they were in the garden outside. >> reporter: she can't get through to other relatives. >> my other relative, mine knews, a lot of nephews and cousins, they were not located. >> reporter: it was a magnitude 8.8 quake that took out bridges, caused roads to collapse, cut out electricity and telephone lines. ere people from chile headed to the embassy anxious for any word from back home. >> it was very bad, according to the international standards, this is one of the worst in all, you know, all the world history. >> reporter: the chilean ambassador says his country is no stricter earthquakes. a quake kild 6000 people there in 1960. so now many of the modern buildings are built to withstand earthquakes. >> karen rosen blat teaches south american history she grew up in chile and has seen her share of quake. >> chile has strict building codes, were the building codes followed? rosen blat's husband is visiting chile and says her father's apartment in santiago, miles away

. >> what do you think, julia?i think that this is not for the people who gary b was just mentioning. while they would put a hold on all foreclosure, they are going to let some of them go through, but the people who really did get themselves into mortgages that they didn't understand and could be helped by the banks, the president really wants to make sure that the banks are doing everything they can to help them and obviously they're not, which is why he's using the bully pulpit to put more pressure on the banks to be more helpful to those who really could be helped and i am not saying it's every single person out there who should be helped and people who lost their jobs and are in homes they can't afford anymore won't be helped by this. >> it's not really the banks. it's this government agency that is having trouble admittedly, the administration says this just isn't working. >> brenda, government is the only entity dumb enough, dumb enough to encourage failure. that's what they're doing. they're saying, you know

now, organizers didn't realize that vonn was down when they let julia mancuso start.s desperately sorry and hopes to heal the tension that currently exists between the u.s. skiers. >> i still can't believe that they set mancuso down the mountain while vonn was still there, but, mark, you have another great story. u.s. freestyle skater back at the games after he was kicked out of the last olympics. why was he kicked out? >> he was kicked out for something that happened out of the aerial of play. any post-competition partying here in vancouver. he promises it will be alcohol free. peterson says he's learned from his last olympic experience, an experience that includes alcohol-induced bar scuffle that got him kicked out of the turino games. >> drinking was definitely a problem. it's something that was getting out of control. and, unfortunately, i had some issues beforehand that led me to coping with alcohol. and rather than getting the help that i should have gotten, i was going to the bottom of the bottle. >> even though peterson is competing in his third olympics here

nightmary carillo will have all the reaction to ladies figure skating and my interview with alpine skier julia mancuso who won two silver medals here and tomorrow morning on "today" the crew will be back at the mountain, and tomorrow in prime time apolo ohno will skate in the final two events of his career perhaps and the four-man bobsled begins in the first of two runs and the champion in that event is steve holcomb and we go back to the coliseum for the ladies medal samy. >> that's joannie rochette, the bronze medalist. >> bronze medalist, representing canada, joannie rochette. >> one can only imagine her emotions nowas she accepts the affection of the crowd. >> silver medalist, representing japan, mao asada. >> and mao, the second silver medal won by the country of japan, midori ito won the silver medal back in 1992. >> and that was her idol growing up in skating, and she did something midori ito couldn't o do. >> and i hope her country receives this as a great success, her silver medal. >> and now the gold medalist winning the first figure skating medal ever for south korea. >> ladies and

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as she lay on the side of the course in pain her teammate, julia mancuso was we leased to start her run. she got a yellow flag on the way down telling her to pull up and stop because vonn was still on the course getting medical attention. mancuso had to go back to the top of the course. she finished well outside the top ten and broke down afterward into what she called tears of frustration. the good news is that the weather delayed the event's second run so she'll get another shot today. she called yesterday's events, quote, ridiculous. saying how could medical staff not get vonn off the course sooner than they did? after her run, she tweeted, quote, this is b.s. expect she used the full word. yesterday's events lent a little more fuel to the rivalry between the teammates, mancuso and vonn. >> and i feel terrible that, you know, i crashed. and i don't want to crash myself let alone to hurt my teammate's chances of getting a medal. so i feel terrible. i hope she understands. i definitely didn't want that to happen for the both of us. >> it's not her fault they couldn't get her off the co

julia mancuso back in action in the giant slalom. she skis the third-fastest time in the second run. but it's not. mancuso finishes eighth. in men's freestyle aerials, jeret peterson picks up the silver medal. st. onge finishes fourth. >>> the women of canada's gold medal hockey team may be in trouble for their postgame antics. some of them hit the ice clad in their medals, swigging booze and smoking cigars. the ioc says celebrating in the locker room is one thing. the team has issued an apology, saying they were overexuberant after winning the gold. >>> as for the medal count, the u.s. remains on top with 32. followed by germany and norway. today includes the men's hockey semifinal, between the u.s. and finland. also, men's speed skating. and women's slalom, where lindsey vonn promises to race, even with that broken finger. >>> also in vancouver, a sad ending to the search for a missing actor. now, andrew koenig's grieving parents are urging others to battle depression to get help. alex stone reports. >> reporter: searchers in vanco

s first medal in the nordic combined, and athletes who exceeded expectations like skier julia mancuso with two sill verz and the bronze medal in the super g, a skier who has never placed better than 10th in a world cup race. >> mental conditioning, nutrition, psychology, it's wrapped into a package when our athletes arrived on site, they were prepared and relaxed and felt good about being here in whistler in vancouver. >> the u.s. alpine results validate the training approach of the privately funded sfr for american excellence in park city, utah established after the torino games. >> the level of support that the athletes have been given is night and day compared to in the past, and we should see that reflect in the results. >> it's reignited rivalries of old. the russian skater's bitter loss has sparked disappointment in the former soviet union with russia sitting in 8th place in the medal count. >> i think it's a shame that our team is performing that badly. it's quite unexpected. >> unexpected is canada's performance, too. after a multi-million dollar push to own the podium in its

teammate, julia mancuso, who was already on the track, has to stop.t a finger. but will complete friday in the slalom. the undefeated u.s. men's hockey team earns a hard-fought win against switzerland in the quarterfinals. two american goals disallowed, including this one as time runs out in the second period. zach pa rise. 2-0, is the final. on the bobsled course, erin pac and alaina myers get the bronze medal. and the fog so thick, you could barely see the women's finals. ashley caldwell enters the finals in first place. but the chinese take two medals. australia claims the gold. brad wheelis, abc news. >> and on the medals table, there's two bronzes that we mentioned, pushed the u.s. total to 28. germany's second with 24. norway remains third with 18. and maybe the most watched event of the games, the women's figure skating free skate is tonight. also tonight, the men's freestyle skiing aerials final. hold on tight for that. >>> a 20-year-old shows the world how to turn a travel nightmare into a one-woman show. >> sure does. ashley clinger was stuc

she won the bronze and ces away with that and yet there is this controversy as julia mancuso does wellvery olympics has a handful of athletes that are built up beyond others to create interest. it's a business. lindsey vonna because of excellence and she is photogenic. >> hockey is the undercurrent of the games. we are in canada. first usa and the canada showdown and the ladies. for canadians, is hockey going to divide the games? >> common knowledge if they can have one gold, as much as they applauded the in women's hockey is the 1 in men's. to get it they had to beat the united states in the loss from earlier this week. that would be the one event in which a silver would feel like a defeat. they had the players around town with the silver medals. especially in a home olympics. >> we will see that gold medal game of course on nbc tomorrow. i should point out when they were watching ladies's figure skating, it's amazing h we become experts every four years. judging the sports. you were a gymnast for a while andou had expertise. >> it is one of the things where i'm amazed at how effortle

her long time teammate and rifle julia mancuso beat the games with two silvers as an encore to torinobronze if his olympic debut. nordic has been around for a long as the games themselves. this courageous band of brothers snapped that streak. >> the united states has never been here. >> earning an historic silver as a team. he got a silver as an individual and finishes and two in the individual events. how did the americans achieve such staggering success in many invested in the teams, including a state-of-the-art training center? utah open just last spring. >> it takes a goal to get a gold. that's a fact in sports and in business. >> as these games wind to a close, the americans have reasserted their place with the best in the world. how is this for olympic perspective. so far the americans have 34 medals. compare that to calgary where they had just six through the entire games. weather permitting, bode miller could be back on the podium today in the men's slalom. >> here's amy. >> lester, thank you. this morning on eat this, not that, frozen dinners were made to make our lives easie

the teammate julia mancuso already on the track had to stop.'ll compete friday though in the slalo-m. the undefeated u.s. men's hockey team ernst a hard fought win against switzerland in the quarter finals. two american goals disallowed including this one as time runs out in the second period. zach marisi of the new jersey devils gets america's first goal then with just 12 seconds left to play, it's feressi again with an empty netter, 2-0 in the final. the bobsled course erin pack and alota myers go into the final run in second place and end up with a bronze medal and the fog so thick you can barely see the women's free style aerial. ashley caldwell enters the finals in first place, but can't withstand the power of the chinese with two medals. australia claims the gold. abc news. >> u.s. continues to lead, germany and norway second and third and canada has moved past russia in the 4th and we'll be right back. now to the top five. the top five. >> not bad. i didn't know. >> delighted to have you. >> i love the snow but good news is that it didn'

but right across from the julia childs kitchen, there is a space that maybe you overlooked and need toback and see. because it is the spark lab. and it is a hands-on place for you and your family and it takes you through the process of invention and don't tell the kids but they hey learn something while they are having fun. steve vanll is with me this morning. he is the resident eccentric. i like that title. tell me about this space and how it works. >> the spark lab is a hands on invention space. what we want to do is convey how everyone it inventive. and especially kids. if you think kids come up with different kinds of ideas and invent -- and invents and we want to let people know that inventing in everyday life is not different than what inventors do. >> reporter: and what is fun about this space is there is so much you can't touch when you can't to museums, but this is where you can get your hands dirty and do it as a family. and so you guys have different things going on in the room all of the time. but then about every hour on the hour, between 11:00 and 3:00, you have staff-led

bill: julia banderas, thank you for that, la guardia, here in new york. eul eul -- uma: one in five detainees are getting into the terrorism business, that's according to john brennan, assistant for homeland security and counter terrorism and he says that's not bad. now, there are calls for him to step down. should he? bill: also videotape of the day, for dozens of people, this was expected to be a day at the beach. it did not work out that way. and there are injuries. you'll see it in a moment, in an update in only three minutes. uma: wow, frightening moments there, this is a reminder of just how dangerous the ocean can be. have you stheen video? take a look. it was taken during a surf contest over the weekend at half moon bay, california. this is what happened, a lone wave sending walls of water over barricades, catching spectators off guard and knocking some off the sea wall. most were okay but 13 people suffered significant injuries, including broken bones and at least three of them are now in the hospital dramatic moments there. bill: not supposed to

obviously a pioneer in the field and you had a friendship with literally a tree hugger if you will juliao was living in a tree trying to save it from being chopped down for two years and the two of you used to do lectures together. was she the one who inspired you? >> well, first of all, everybody has a soft spot for nature somewhere. not many people wake up and say, i hate bunnies and trees, like most people are. most people have a soft spot for nature, so i grew up on the edge of a small town and grew up in the woods, so i always had that, but it was buried someplace. and actually, it was when i burned out on some of the more angry politics and tried to heal myself that i started going to the woods, and i met julia butterfly and i said, hold on a second. you have all of the kids in urban america, rural america who need job, and we have important work to be done and what if we connected the two. it was a revolution to me, fight pollution and poverty at the same time. >> reporter: you have no resentment that you lost the white house job? >> i had six great months to have a chance to do t

. >> jimmy: meryl streep in "julie and julia." >> steve: she was great in that, too.t's a toughy. [ scattered applause ] >> jimmy: that's a toughy. >> steve: you know what, if they can pick 10, you can pick five. >> jimmy: there's only -- what do you mean? >> steve: pick all of them. i mean, they're all god people. god bless them. [ light laughter ] >> jimmy: all right. they all win. there you go. [ laughter ] >> steve: they do. >> jimmy: i'm just going to do just so i -- i think i'm going to say meryl streep is going to win. >> steve: yeah, well, she was great. >> jimmy: right? just because she's cool. sandy bulls is pretty good, too, though. >> steve: it's a toughy. >> jimmy: i know, it's a toughy. that's the one that's going to kill me. i'm going to say meryl streep. >> steve: all right. >> jimmy: i'm not betting on this, i'm just saying. best motion picture of the nominee, ten nominees. what didn't get nominated? "avatar," no, there's "nine." oh, "district nine." [ light laughter ] >> steve: "district nine" or "nine?" >> jimmy: it's a different "nine." >> steve: w

julia, rachel, you guys have done great work. thank you. it's starting to pay off.f the senate, also known as the vice president, have responded to our calls or otherwise gone on the record about whether they support the idea of reforming the filibuster. the republicans are using it in a way that's never been used before. they are using it to require 60 votes on everything. a result so far, nine senators and joe biden say that they are for the idea of changing the filibuster rules and democratic senator maria cantwell of washington is joining the other six who say they do not support the rules. that leaves 84 senators who have yet to get back to us with a definitive position. senator, senate staffers this is not a trick or a trap. we want to know where to put you on our chart. in the hope of inspiring you to respond to these calls from our very nice hard working interns, we are topping the considerable talents today of "newsweek" contributor jerry adler. every week he turns a story from the news into verse for "newsweek." now without further adieu, we present jerry

>> absolutely extraordinary bad luck for julia mancuso. >> just give us a sense of your emotions finishingman. >> a lap and a half and apolo ohno in trouble. and apolo ohno takes down two brothers and a country to get back. it's apolo's seventh. >> the fans are kind of excited, don't you think? >> bode miller has the gold! >> he scores! >> the skate and the moment is much more than the competition. >> into triple toe loop. >> yeah! one of the greatest olympic performances i have ever seen. >>> the aftermath, incredible damage after the earthquake in chile, one of the most powerful quakes in history. the latest on the tsunami warnings that spanned the globe. >>> a dishonorable act. a woman abducted in arlington, assaulted, seriously injured. why a marine is now under arrest, accused in a similar crime. >>> and time to pay up. metro riders, while your trip is suddenly more expensive today. >>> od morning, everyone. i'm kimberly suiters. welcome to "news 4 today" at 9:00. it's sunday, february 28th, 2010. a look at the day's top stories in just a minute. but first, let's get a

. >>> i'm julia boorstin with your cnbc market wrap. >>> the dow jones industrial average plunging morets, briefly dipping below 10,000 for the first time since november. the s&p 500 falling 34 points. the nasdaq at 65.5 points. >>> global market kicking off a spiral about debts in portugal, spain and greece. calling for painful measures to get budget shortfalls back under control. the u.s. jobs market rattling investors. jobless claims rising last week. they expected a drop around 10,000. disappointing earnings from mastercard making things worse. profits were up last quarter, but not as much as analysts expecting. but macy's one of the few bright spots adding more than 2% on strong sals numbers, and improving outlook. >>> that's it from cnbc, first in business worldwide. now back to "hardball." >>> if i'm a rhino, so is ronald reagan. i mean, i'm a less taxing, less spending, more freedom kind of guy. i take a pragmatic, common-sense approach to government. if that's not what people want, they'll let me know. >> welcome back to "hardball." that was charlie crist, fighting out in flori