>> junk bonds have been anything but junky. i think they're about to get a lot more junky. >> very interesting play. thank you very much. guys. that's it for us. before we go, for the 238th time america is celebrating the fourth of july. the day the 13 colonies declared our independence from great britain. so i want to take a minnesota to reflect on our independence. folks, america's changed. we were once a strong and proud people built on a rock solid work ethic, independent. recently however we've evolved for the worse. a massive 55% of all americans depend on the government for an entertainment. 46 million are on food stamps since barack obama took over as president. nearly half of all american households pay taxes. barack obama and his minions keep telling us how great the recovery is. gasoline's up 100% under obama and many food prices are at a record high. sadly, americans' median household income has plummeted. on this holiday weekend, may i suggest we observe a new day, january 20th, the day president obama was sworn in

i was a history junkie and very interested in politics before i got the opportunity myself.i got the opportunity because of people like you watching c-span at home to write three books now. it would be worth it for me to read because it is a great start to read some of the amazing sounded in history you would then bwouldn'tbe needed if somet in a novel. that isn't a good enough reason for me to write history. i write history because the messages in the past resignation with us today and we can learn from these things today so we can remember no matter how they treat all a court devices and combative our politics. the 10,000 armed battles fought throughout the united states. watching tv and hearing this is the most divisive election ever, the most combative negative campaign committee is peoples memories go back ten years. remember we have a host of very serious problems in the country today and you touch on one of them we have $17 trillion in debt and we are passing on to the next generation leaving the first generation isn't going to be better off than their grandparents an

seeing training here is jamie flin, a thrill seeker, former paratrooper, base jumper, an adrenaline junkie, but there's a crazy story bind the video. this is a four-part series called "back to basics," and this is the story of jamie's recovery. in this moment he's preparing for a sky dive less than eight months after a horrific base jump almost killed him. look at this video from june of last year. this is the moment that almost killed jamie flynn. >> what happened? >> he landed in what he thought was a grassy field, but it was mostly a bed of rocks, and when he landed, he crash the entire right side of the body and spent a long time in the hospital. doctors said he would never run again. they said he would have trouble walking again potentially, but here we are, and he's training to jump out of an airplane. [ bleep ] >> here he goes walking towards the airplane in the gear. he's headed back into the sky, and it's really incredible. >> i got to believe, though, that first landing is still nerve racking, scared and nervous for the first landing. >> you want to see it? >> yeah. >> here it is

most pilots are news junkies like i am.e pretty much have an idea before we take off that we're headed some place where there might be some additional risk. and of course i think where we might have a case, a false sense of security here. we look at an awful lot of traffic going through that area, and sometimes people say, well, everybody else made it, i guess it's really okay. but there is this one spot if they had avoided this spot by five miles, this never would have happened. >> let's talk about what luxury a pilot has or doesn't have to make a decision. if they are news junkies, they see this flight plan and say this is dangerous. i spoke to a former u.s. pilot yesterday who said he does have the right to say, and do all pilots have a right to say i think this might be dangerous? >> absolutely. no matter what the air traffic control instructions are, no matter what the flight plan says from the company, no matter what company management says in the end the captain, the person who is in charge that have airport is respo

for all you world cup junkies who are in withdrawl now that soccer season is over.don't worry! this isn't the last time you can catch a game at the civic center. they are planning to do the same thing for the women's world cup next year. a morgan hill teen tired of being bullied about his health condition decided to stand up against it. instead of fighting back, he tells kron 4's alecia reid he took a different approach. his way of dealing with bullies landed him a significant award. joshua toch has grown into quite the young man. to think, his parents were prepared for a child that would possibly never be able to take care of himselfbut cerebral palsey didn't get the best of him. sot - he's a walking talking miracle. not only did the 18 year old have to deal with his condition his entire life, but like many children, also endured bullying. sot - i would walk and talk differently. and growing up i ran with a bobble head, so my head would go back and forth. people would call me bobble head. he joined his school's cross country team, and rotary club. before he knew it, his speech

now the iconoclastic, egocentric adrenaline junkie who deciphered the human genetic code is experimenting with synthetic life in the laboratory. aren't you playing god? >> we're not playing anything. we're understanding the roles of life. >> do you believe in god? >> no. [ticking] >> this is the first all-electric sports car, the roadster, made by tesla motors. >> yeah, you can floor it, no problem. it'll be fine. >> all right. here i go. you ready? the chairman of tesla, elon musk, says the roadster can accelerate from 0 to 60 in four seconds. it's propelled by more than 6,000 finger-sized laptop batteries and not a single drop of oil. welcome to 60 minutes on cnbc. i'm lesley stahl. in this edition, we look at the business of powering the planet. we meet a group of overnight millionaires getting rich from gas dug out of rocks. we also take a look at the financial promise of an emerging science known as synthetic biology. and finally, we examine an alternative car fuel that you probably never heard of: laptop computer batteries. we begin with an unconventional process for extracting natu

. >> suburban mom becomes suburban junkie. >> dr.s this hidden epidemic. >> heroin use is hell disguised as heaven. >> coming up next on "dr. oz." dr oz: today -- a big change in the medical community that has me scared. i'm talking about a new prescription painkiller so are already lers giving it street names. it's called zohydro. many colleagues like myself and

i would consider myself an adrenaline junkie. i think i'm addicted to it. if i'm supposed to work, i want to go skate. it pretty much consumes my thoughts at all times. >> daryl's specialty is downhill skating which takes a special skill set. >> you got to not be afraid of blood, pain. you have to want to go faster. i think there's a lot of friends that i used to skate with and they would get hurt a few times and that was enough for them. i guess if you enjoy the pain and you enjoy the challenge of just trying to make it to the bottom of the hill and survive or make it to the bottom of the hill without falling, once you do that, you ought to make it to the bottom of the hill faster than the first time. i guess you got to want the thrill. >> like the rest in this show, it is all about pushing limits. i want to warn you. anything you see here don't try at home. >> it is just like any challenge, like mountain climbing or even a video game, just trying to get to the finish, just trying to make the next one the best one and do it as fast or as good as you can. >

shark mania as it were has spawned a new crop of shark junkies drawn to the danger and thrill. sean harrington is trying to create a viral video to promote his clothing line and he admits it went a bit wrong. >> i seen the shark coming for me, i just threw the bird cage behind my legs and pretty much just saved me from probably grabbing my legs. i've got to thank the bird cage, really. >> reporter: check out this florida teen who hitched a ride on a whale shark last summer. >> i decided that, you know what, i should maybe try and swim with him. because i might not be able to do it ever again. >> you're [ bleep ] crazy. >> reporter: this is a nantucket fisherman who grabbed a 200-pound sand shark in the surf. >> i think people just kind oftc it seems wild, running into the water and grabbing a shark by its tail. >> reporter: there's a whole new industry, shark tourism, worth $300 million a year and growing. i went cage driving with great whites in africa a couple of years ago -- but even that's old hat these days. matt gutman went diving with tiger shark in the ba ham mays weari

they call them junkies, and they are not. they are not.y are kids that go to college, and basketball players, and moms and good people. >> the story of one community in new jersey and how the heroin antidote has been used to save lives. before we go, we wanted to show you the time laps pictures of the casta concordia being pulled away from the scene where it capsized. two tug boats are pulling the ship from the island to the northwest port of genoa, where the boat will be scrapped. it was take four days at two miles per hour. you can find more on the day's news at our website. for more, go to twitter. for awful us here at "bbc world news america." thanks for watching. >> for all of us here at "bbc world news america," thanks for watching. >> make sense of international news at bbc.com/news. >> funding of this presentation is made possible by the freeman foundation. newman's own foundation, giving all profits to charity and pursuing the common good for over 30 years. kovler foundation. and union bank. >> for 150 years, we believe that comme

it is not the romantic junkie haunted, crack infested, behookerred playground we all love.all your money. well, almost. >> 25-year-old junior bishop dressed as spider-man took a photo with two people. when the couple attempted to give the man $1, bishop says he only takes $5, $10 and $20s. a police officer stepped in, telling the couple they can donate whatever they want. the officer asked for bishop's i.d. he said he didn't have an i.d. >> jon: [whispering]: his real

it is not the romantic junkie haunted, crack infested, behookerred playground we all love. gone are the days you have to worry about masked stranger demanding that you hand over all your money. well, almost. >> 25-year-old junior bishop dressed as spider-man took a photo with two people. when the couple attempted to give the man $1, bishop says he only takes $5, $10 and $20s. a police officer stepped in, telling the couple they can donate whatever they want. the officer asked for bishop's i.d. he said he didn't have an i.d. >> jon: [whispering]: his real name is peter parker, p-a-r-k-er. he lives with his aunt in queens. [laughter] and it's his fault uncle ben died. [audience reacts] it was his fault! spider-man caused that. he wasn't spider-man at the time. he was peter parker and he didn't realize with great power comes great responsibility, but he bleep uncle ben. nobody can tell me any different. [laughter] anyway, something tells me this little thing here is not going to end well. >> the officer told bishop he was going to place him under arrest. that's when police say

saying a lot of negative stuff about our region they say people in the bus are a bunch of alcoholics junkies and social parasites if we're so bad then why do you need us. we've held a referendum to declare independence and establish the lugansk people's republic. and my brother was chair of the local election committee in our town by the way. what changed near a town since to self defense forces were formed. place self-defense forces appeared in our town and some of them have gone to to help defend it. some have gone to look and others through the net. there is the self defense forces in our town controlling the situation. but i think you are those people there are miners farmers workers you know these people personally do you know anyone from the self-defense forces they are friends. one of them has been wounded and he is in hospital right now has been wounded in the leg and lung whether you call to join the self-defense forces yes but my wife wouldn't let me go she told me i have children to take care of to look after if you don't know i think she will come down and maybe later i could joi

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obviously, i'm an adrenaline junkie. i'm pumping right now. >> reporter: once up at the hive, they vacuumed the bees into a hive box below. there's a science to it. >> one thing is when you do it, you do not want to breathe on the hive. you get so excited and hold your breath and all of a sudden, you go, ahh. they hate that carbon monoxide and they go straight for you. >> surrounded by the bees, they cut away the comb. the process takes 25 minutes. >> if you can see the comb, all the colors, that's all the local pollen from all the flowers and the trees. >> reporter: all of which will be transferred to new hives. >> i think he forgets he's on the ladder. >> she's given them the chance to go to a new hive where they willner be bothered again. >> important for a species under so much pressure. >> better them than us. honey harvesting began last week in colorado. it usually doesn't start until september. >>> firefighters rush to help people trapped on a ride. what went wrong? >>> why president obama wants your next car to t

. >> are you a junk food junkie? could with your parents are to blame.hers say poor diet habits may be in your dna and a father's bad diet may create a cellular memory in dna passed on to their child. >> good to know. >> what started out on kick starter turned into a viral sensation. it's raised he's been on national television, going to try to donate to charity. >> that is potato salad pound. >> low clouds and fog at the coast pushing it will be hot with humanus rotations here if the bay area. some cooler but mild to warm tomorrow. highs into 70s, mid to upper 80s. here is the accu-weather forecast. a warm up with low 90s. quite warmer, mid-90s and 80s on the bay. >> yes. >> thank you. >> we didn't see this one coming. brazil overwhelmed by germany. germany in the first 45 minutes, unbelievable. (birds chirping softly in background.) (loud engine sounds!) what! how's it going? heard you need a ride to school. oh, that's pretty cool! big day at school? i know just the thing to help you get going. power up with new cheerios protein. >> brazil conneeded fo

ballpark with the best facilities bizarre hours i was a junkie state and the new youngest there and it's pretty awesome city with the toughest fans philadelphia for sure. for sure philly a super power you'd like to have super power and i do have the speed i was. going to be faster proudest moment proudest moment. just given my life to the lord was a major league baseball rule you'd like to change i was. i don't know maybe that bog move on the camera or to second base right. or now you can bug to third base if you don't throw the ball or you don't have the first and third move. so i would say that about. the biggest prankster in the locker room. oh you mean intro and i mean is there a guy who makes fun with those little tricks and yeah there's free we go by you guys but who's the quietest teammate they acquire his team. i would say josh. you know his require funniest teammate funny steamy. gary rich or maybe it's because. sometimes you tell him something he forgets right away. you know you know that's gonna pre-game ritual. you just go meaning. my routine a little bit of fruit and you kno

. >> are you a junk food junkie? could with your parents are to blame. diet habits may be in your dna and a father's bad diet may create a cellular memory in dna passed on to their child. >> good to know. >> what started out on kick starter turned into a viral sensation. it's raised $60,000. he's been on national television, going to try to donate to charity. >> that is potato salad by the pound. >> low clouds and fog at the coast pushing inland. it will be hot with humanus rotations here if the bay area. some cooler but mild to warm tomorrow. highs into 70s, mid to upper 80s. here is the accu-weather forecast. a warm up with low 90s. quite warmer, mid-90s and 80s on the bay. >> yes. >> thank you. >> we didn't see this one coming. brazil overwhelmed by germany. germany in the first 45 minutes, unbelievable. ?? >> brazil conneeded four goals in seven minutes and seven total. brazil and germany looking to advance to age world cup final. look at this volley. his 10th goal. all time world cup leading goal scorer with 16. he misses a shot, but cruise is the

the upcoming event for adrenaline junkies that has some seeing red. >>> and good evening. i'm meteorologist jeff ranieri. thick fog right now in san francisco. currently 65 degrees. we'll let you know more about that morning forecast in the one spot that will start off relatively clear, coming up in just a few minutes. that's about as american as it gets. woman: what do you mean? blueberry pancakes, strawberries and cream cheese icing, starting at just $4.99. apple pie, watch out. [bell rings] waitress: welcome to denny's! >>> a mortgage been hill mother is being called lucky, even as she fights to survive. >> she suffered a brain aneurysm almost two weeks ago. and the series of events that led up to it may have saved her life. here is nbc bay area's ian cull. >> i have never known a more genuine and loving person. >> reporter: if you think everything happens for a reason, the last two weeks of heidi crouch's life may convince you. >> we find of feel like this is the story of miracles, and the miracles started that night. >> reporter: on july 3rd, john and heidi crouch wer

just how did you know her i knew kerry we were kind of you know we're both of us sort of political junkies and are quite active in sort of social advocacy so we had been in washington together just on political stuff i'm advocating for arts education and. you know different causes so we were very friendly and but i had been such a huge fan of carrie's work or if every time i'd seen a movie i just thought i have to work with this and i think shonda rhimes how did you hook up with her i met shonda because reason i directed the third episode of grey's anatomy and so i did i directed in the first and second season of grey's and we became friendly in you know just huge admirers are you surprised at her success no i'm not shonda that she owns what there's a nice right now she on a b c she's got grey's scandal and how to get away with murder yeah it's no show you know show so you know i'm not surprise you know shonda is a brilliant brilliant woman. who has a very unique. voice as a writer and a producer creator and it just hits the site geist you know and shonda also the thing that's amazing abou

. >> he was a junkie before he was a writer. >> as so many of us were. >> i think this is a place if here and somehow working within a romantic tradition. >> yes. >> burroughs said right up front, writer to me lounged around in a smoking jacket or a caftan and smoking littered with sleeping boys. >> yes. >> or girls. >> to what extent did that world exist and to what extent was that world created by the people that showed up with that expectation? >> since bill departed, iep, dear, wonderful, marvelous man, he's gone, it's tame now. >> it is tame. >> well, he was -- >> genteel now. >> he was the very opposite of genteel. he was an outlaw of every society. >> my husband knew him very well and he was saying that i cured him of being a drug addict. i said how? he said, i turned him into an alcoholic. >> who smokes hashish at this table? please raise your hand. >> is the camera on? >> put your hand up, bianca. sea captain: there's a narratorstorm cominhe storm narrator: that whipped through the turbine which poured... surplus energy into the plant which generously lowered its price and t

. >> he's like the junkie that can't resist the heroin. it's a crime of opportunity.rrogance, a compulsion, and a cunning that we can't understand. >> and at that moment you feel a sense of torture and pain because you know that you were so close to this person but you didn't see the signs. i think something broke in john at that moment and he hasn't trusted people in the same way since. well, the day of charlie's arraignment we were all on pins and needles. >> called his sister and said, i'll see you at court on friday for my court appearance. >> his family had bailed him out and put up a pretty big bail bond from what i knew of. so we were all hopeful that he would be there and they could serve him the restraining order. well, he didn't show up. >> that's when the warrant was issued and we all began to look for him. he took all of his money, hopped in his car, took off. >> he said he would take john out -- myself. he would take john out before he would ever go to prison. a lot of attention.ur cli there's unlimited talk and text. we're working deals all day. you get

i am a tech junkie. i want to work the miscreants so i am very interested in all technologies that help protect whether it is private information, company information, intellectual property or whatever. >> europe work in a public -private partnership for the state of maryland, correct? >> i was president of the chapter for the state of maryland which is a partnership with the fbi. i was president in 2013. a very good organization. it involves a lot of civilians are trying to work with law enforcement to keep people informed about threats to the critical infrastructure. my area of interest was on the cyber side. >> talk about the infrastructure in the context of this new tsa move to ban certain smartphones that may lack a charge. give us the details. what do you know? afteryou remember back 9/11, if you are traveling, very often you take your notebook computer out of your bag. you have to start it up so they can see that the notebook itself actually worked. the same thing is going on with mobile devices.

this is kind of a junky poll. doesn't mean there is no trouble for barack obama in terms of public opinion. definitely sour. dysfunction here. and a mess overseas. and blames the president more than anyone else because he is the guy in charge whether he is responsible for the problems or not. if you look at numbers here, both george w. bush and jimmy carter ended their presidencies at 34% in the approval ratings. and afterwards, they are at 47% for george w. bush and 56% for jimmy carter. >> but bush is a close second. >> people like either the dead or gone presidents more than the current one. but more importantly, if you look at numbers on obama in this poll, the republicans, 63% of them, say obama is the worst president ever. so right there, that counts for most of the poll. republicans saying -- >> i take that point. look, obviously, you are going back to world war ii, and the most recent presidents are one and two to tell you about how we think with these things, right in front of us. i get that. at the same

for all you world cup junkies who are in withdrawl now that soccer season is over.don't worry! this isn't the last time you can catch a game at the civic center. they are planning to do the same thing for the women's world cup next year. coming up a victim of bullying and how he dealt with, along with eight ymca being closed down. being bullied about his health condition decided to stand up against it. instead of fighting back, he tells kron 4's alecia reid he took a different approach. his way of dealing with bullies landed him a significant award. joshua toch has grown into quite the young man. to think, his parents were prepared for a child that would possibly never be able to take care of himselfbut cerebral palsey didn't get the best of him. sot - he's a walking talking miracle. not only did the 18 year old have to deal with his condition his entire life, but like many children, also endured bullying. sot - i would walk and talk differently. and growing up i ran with a bobble head, so my head would go back and forth. people would call me bobble head. he joined his school's

. >> if you don't like it, you ship it back and they will send you more junky like going to the store across the street and pick out stuff for my granddaughter. >> i love it, lolly-pop, locally. >> it is cute. >> locally jolly. >> okay. >> good goalie miss molly. >> locally, something like that, seventh and walnut. >> summertime, it is a good time to clean out your, closet,. >> they compiled a list of clothes that men should just get rid of. >> here we go, guys, time to clean out your closet. get rid of any ty die material, never put that on anymore. oversized jackets like from the 80's with the shoulder pads. >> don't wear those. >> and i still see it, squared towed shoes that were the rage about ten years ago that aaron murray your boyfriend still wears. >> if there is a square toe it is front but the whole foot, yes. >> like a box. >> that was very in the early 2,000, of course, just like mom jeans, dads do have jeans that are too high wasted. >> yes, acid washed. >> do you have any items in your closet. >> no, but i do see jumpers, people should get rid of jumpers. >> well this ri

critics say he's a political junky. he's battling a dark past.en were antiactivists kidnapped by indonesia special forces. they are still missing. this man was among those abducted, tortured and released. he was dismiss ed from the army for role in kidnappings. jack says he must be held accountabili accountability. >> translator: he shouldn't be president. he still thinks like military commander. >> indonesia is a different country now. 30% of indonesia voters head to the polls for the first time. they've grown up in a morn -- a modern indonesia. they want a president to better represent this country on the international stage. >> reporting there from indonesia. >>> now andy murray hasn't done it, but wylie might. they could win all four major tennis titles in a year completing a grand slam. she would be the wheelchair women's doubles at wimbledon. she dropped by earlier and told me it was a tough match. >> pretty awful, i won't lie. we had a good start to the second set and went on to win it. >> you say it's an awful set but i think it's better

bay area adrenaline junkies get ready for a chance to run with the bulls but not everybody wants to see this weekend's event charge ahead. >> a san francisco woman who rented out her vacation home is stuck with tenants that are refusing to leave. the legal technicality. >> good morning. if >> the crowds have not arrived yet. we tell you where traffic is beginning to slow. >> we started the week off with tropical clouds, and rain with temperatures below average. if you are heading down to gilroy today, it will >>> welcome back. it's 5:14. no one living in a million dollar home in bernal heights neighborhood but it is getting a lot of use from people who just drop by without an invitation. >> neighbors say the house has been boarded up by the owners several times but that has not stopped squatters. neighbors complain that they are constantly picking up trash especially bottles and cigarette butts. >> it is disrespectful to the neighbors and that is where we get fed up. >> one neighbor says he has seen parties of 20 more people that spill out into the park next door. he recently installed

. >> cronkite was the perfect person for space because he was a space junky.ng the early mercury missions and he just became an encyclopedia on it. >> what are hazards and what are scientists doing to ensure man survival in outer space? that is our story. first man on the moon as a prudential insurance company of america. >> this is marine lieutenant colonial john h glen jr. who will be the first american to fly in orbit around the world. >> we're embarking in a new field, space science and i'm happy and proud i can maybe contribute in my own way in this new field. >> john glenn came along next and flue the first orbital flight for an american. to us, that was a huge deal because now we had an american hero who could at least stand up. >> three, two, one. >> this is mercury control. the spacecraft is committed to the third orbit. >> looks good. we'll see you back. >> all right, boy. >> shortly before he is supposed to reenter the atmosphere, the word comes there is a possibility that glen's heat shield has detached from the base of the capsule. >> go ahead. >>

. >> seth: you used to be, like, a news junkie. is that something you can do when you have kids? my material was political, topical, everything. now with kids, i have no idea what's going on in the world. is obama still president? >> seth: yes. [ laughter ] >> okay, that's good. because, you know, apparently people don't like him anymore. >> seth: yes. before you had kids, he was very popular, but then everything changed. >> very popular. and now, i turn the tv on. it's like, "oh, obama, ah." but here's the thing. he doesn't care. he's over us. he is so over us right now. >> seth: i agree with you. >> he's like, "it's me time now, for obama." he's taking selfies. [ light laughter ] it's the joy of life now. he's like, "i'm going to do what i want to do. hey, you know what, give me one of our guys and i'll give you five of your guys." why not? [ laughter ] he doesn't give a damn anymore. he doesn't care. [ cheers and applause ] and did you see the five guys that we gave back? they were evil looking. really, really -- you know, we got a guy who -- they give us back the guy who can'