phil keating reports in florida that idea has been easier said than done. >> am i going to get voltage or anything? >> no. >> why? >> [ inaudible ] >> i'm not facing the sun. >> sunshine energy is green energy. >> you want a 6/16 socket. >> a $3 million federal grant enables students to get green skills. the obama administration allocated $90 billion are dollars. only about 25% of this program's graduates have found green jobs. whether in energy, recycling industry or sustainable landscape design. >> going to go through training and accept what jobs come. >> analysts say the obama administration was ambitious to thing 5 million jobs could be created short term. in two years, 225,000 green jobs materialized a quarter of all public investment jobs created. >> the reason for slow growth in green jobs in that the the induy was very small and it's hard to make it create jobs. >> also government subsidies to get industry greener are short term when industry prefers long term commitment. a major reason solar energy isn't spurring more jobs is states like florida are cash strapped and they kil

expected in a month. >> bret: phil keating with props in pensacola. thank you. >>> first-time claims for jobless benefits fell last week. home construction nudged up 3.9% in november after two months of decline. the broadest measure of the u.s. trade deficit is up 3.3% in the third quarter to $127 billion. the current account tracks good and flow of services and investments. stocks were up today. dow gained 41-3/4. s&p 500 finished ahead 7-2/3. nasdaq added 20. oregon democratic senator ron widen says he will undergo surgery monday for early stage pros kate -- prostate cancer and says he expects full recovery. >>> fox news and iowa republican party will present two presidential debates in the upcoming campaign. the first is august 21 of next year to coincide with iowa straw poll. second is in 2012. prior to the iowa caucuses. >>> the most expensive christmas tree you have ever seen. it's in a muslim councilmember. a look at what could be the next wave of alternative energy. >> as this goes up and down, it could be the future of energy wi the capital o

governor keating thank you. congratulations in your new life. it will be interesting to wra w your career. >> what was the relationship between 12-year-old brittany smith and the man suspected of murdering her mother? back in a flash. c@w >> we have good news that brit is safe and we are hap knee and anxiously awaiting home coming. we are so thankful to everyone's contributions for making this a national event. brittany will be home for christmas she will be here to tell her mother good-bye and she will be able to help her mother rest in peace tonight. there has been a ray of sunshine on this very dark event, may god bless you all. thank you once again. >> with her aunt expressing the obvious relief of everyone who followed this case you almost knew the guts of the story i leave from the very beginning the original surveillance photo showing the missing 12-year-old brittany walking along side her dead mother's sleazy boyfriend jeffery easley. he killed the mom 41-year-old smith in her home sunday then he snatches the kid who i think was infatua

in chile with several buildings in the keating construction that goes back onto the subject. >> think you. we're there. commissioners, rivers and in the owners of 135 is -- camino del mar. we have been working hard with the planning department to get this through the process. and eventually get to burke regina kilovar et. quickly i want to run through where we have been. exhibit c shows the chronology. every process over the last 12 months. outlining what their requirements were. at that time we felt we needed a new architect, so we hired more to help us through the planning department. this is really more complex as this involves the redesign of the entire front of the building. june, first submitted plans from july and into july without more comments backfill a number of times we noticed and held a site with the meetings will we're doing best about moving forward, it should go out in the next week or so. if there is a discretionary view -- discretionary review -- it will be there if there is a discretionary review application. we will have something to build, hopefully, moving to th

governor keating thank you. congratulations in your new life. it will be interesting to wra w your career. >> what was the relationship between 12-year-old brittany smith and the man suspected of murdering her mother? back in a flash. for constipation relief... nothing works better than miralax. it's the one. the one recommended by more doctors. only miralax is clinically proven to relieve constipation with no harsh side effects. miralax is the only one. restore your body's natural rhythm with miralax. >> we have good news that brit is safe and we are hap knee and anxiously awaiting home coming. we are so thankful to everyone's contributions for making this a national event. brittany will be home for christmas she will be here to tell her mother good-bye and she will be able to help her mother rest in peace tonight. there has been a ray of sunshine on this very dark event, may god bless you all. thank you once again. >> with her aunt expressing the obvious relief of everyone who followed this case you almost knew the guts of the story i leave fr

supreme court. >> shepard: phil keating live in pensacola. thanks.federal regulators with what could be a crucial decision for the hundreds of thousands of americans battling breast cancer. it concerns the popular drug avastin. the food and drug administration reports new evidence shows that the drug's risk outweighs its benefits. and it's recommending doctors no longer use it to treat breast cancer patients. the f.d.a. making announcement after reviewing several clinical studies in women. but some doctors and patients reportedly defending the drug and saying it should remain available. cool critters. we're heading to a miami -- to miami's dolphin to meet its newest addition. we're getting word of a movement in the house on that tax cut package. that and updates on the rest of the night's story just ahead. anp to bring you a low-price medicare prescription drug plan that has the lowest national premium in the country of only $14.80 per month. so you can focus on the things that really matter. go to walmart.com for details. to london starts with arthr

tonight, paul keating, the former prime minister of australia, takes a look at the rise of asia and what it means for rest of the world. >> we're moving to a much more representative world structure where half the world was once ridden with poverty, they're emerging from poverty. where-- we're coming into a much better world but a trickier one, one where we have these assortment of interests. in a sense, you can see this by the development of the g-20. we had-- you could run the world from the north atlantic through the g-7. that's now at least gone. >> rose: also this evening, the fabulous nora ephron. >> as you get older, you really do remember nothing. you really have entire sections of your life that have floated away in some sort of-- never to be retrieved way. and every so often-- you know your friends say to you, "you know what you always say any something," and they tell you something you never said, you're pretty sure you never said. >> rose: paul keating and nora ephron when we continue. additional funding provided by these funders: meals for th or maybe you want to help when t

picking up on phil keating story, beam me up scotty, where is there intelligent life, these guys areck and forth and it becomes a matter of a political football back and forth. they play the game, it's about a human -- we want to make sure people are taken care of, on the other hand people are saying it's not an incentive for them to go get work. at some point they need to get the nation's business done. at the moment it's all politics here in washington,es, especialy with this lame-duck session, the democrats are trying to help somebody, and the republicans say how much longer can it go. megyn: what's with all the poultry references. lame-duck, chicken crap, sounds like a theme. >> reporter: yes, ma'am. megyn: a hollywood murder mystery that sounds like it is straight out of a movie script. the powerful promoter behind big films, like "driving miss daisy" and the recently released "burlesque" murdered smack-dab in the center of beverly hills. when police find a suspect he shoots himself in the head. wait until you hear where the story goes from there. a brave lawyer volunteers to be

. >> carl smith, a retired firefighter who is now in the keating business, choses one of the main carbon monoxide problems in the home, the chimney. >> what is happening is unless a technician comes or when they come out to service the furnace, they have to take a small pipe out from the chimney so they can be able to see whether or not the chimney is open. and >> carl says every year homeowners need to have their furnace and chimney checked by as an asia certified technician. >> today it was baltimore man was taken into custody after he helped police. police were called to the agent hundred block of wahlberg avenue for an armed person. when they arrive the man was inside, but when the swat team got there he walked out. there were no reports of any injuries and they say they did not find any weapon. maryland transportation authority officer was rear ended by another driver. that officer was taken to hospital with minor injuries. >> the justice department is suing bp and eight other companies in the gulf oil spill disaster. the lawsuit also seeks several penalties under the clean water ac

but one not lost on survivors like keating crown, escaped the south tower collapse. >> the fact thate survived such devastation reminds us all of a capacity of the human spirit to endure. >> reporter: transplanted and nursed back to health in van courtland park. >> the spring after the attacks i saw the buds coming out, then i knew that she was going to survive. we took care of it. >> reporter: surrounding the survivor tree here in whatnown/ took it to a nursery in bronx, >> reporter: among those helping to plant the tree, retired fda lieutenant mickey cross. >> until we get memory of the people that are not here. i was a lucky guy. i'm lucky like the tree. ow >>> fatal fire. the holiday tragedy in chicago exactly 100 years after a very deadly day in history. >>> catholic controversy involving a hospital and a life or death decision. >> we always save the life we can save. >> the swift impact and now fierce debate. >>> and, holiday ham served by a creative chef in "insomniac kitchen." it's thursday, december 23rd. >> from abc news, this is "world news now." >> this is my first experi

. >> phil keating in florida. whatquite a car crash. look at where the vehicle came to rest. a stop sign and went airborne and came to a stop between two houses. her husband thought it was an earthquake. >> no, that wasn't . i came downstairs and i opened the door to my living room door and i saw a car hanging. another homeowner said he had just sold the place. the driver and passenger with minor injuries. the driver was drunk and the police made an arrest. >> hostage stand off in a police school involving swords. cops and terrified parents survounding the place and how it all ended. parting words from the president top economic gurus as he gets ready to leave the white house. the country has to take substantial steps to avoid a relapse. >> the economy may be out of the intensive care unit and the patient now faces the long road of not just recoverying from prevous afflictions but beginning to address chronic ailments . and some coffee. - sure, cake or pie? - pie. - apple or cherry? - cherry. oil or cream? oil or cream? cream. some use hydrogenated oil. reddi-wip uses real da

who better to ask than phil keating who joins us live from miami.t are we talking about here, little green men, intelligent life, something along those lines? >> reporter: something not that exact, but we don't know exactly what nasa is going to announce. we know that at 2:00 eastern time, nasa is going to have a news conference announcing its new astrobiology discovery, and since nasa won't say anything about what's going to be said, the internet has just been exploding with commentary and speculation ever since yesterday afternoon and a lot of people believe it's all going to boil down to yosemite national park because one of the four featured scientists at today's 2:00 news conference is simon, who spent the past two years researching mono lake in california, that lake has one of the highest concentrations of arsenic on planet earth and the speculation is she may have discovered that microbes can actually exist in that very poisonous environment where all other life that we know of exists on phos or us. everyone has that as a basic building block

i recently read some of the stuff the keating howard then of being a a party member. i read the fbi file. there aren't things like communist party numbers in the file. when you find a file that has numbers you really have something. those numbers are fully consistent with other people who joined the party at the time including hollywood 10 members who you are probably being told where all innocent lambs, liberals and progressives practicing civil liberties dragged before joe mccarthy. joe mccarthy was a senator. was on the house committee. october 1947, called to washington d.c. to testified john howard lawson was one of the hollywood 10. communist party member -- albert schmaltz, 47196. i got some of -- all of frank marshall davis's weekly columns that he wrote for the honolulu record from 1949 to 1950 which was the communist party usa in hawaii. i got them through the help of two college students. one found them on line and the other is actually in hawaii and i am amazed is here today. i will keep it secret. she went into a library in the university of hawaii and go

. >> shepard: phil keating in south florida tonight. thanks. now, the rise of freedom.eras have been following the rebuilding of the world trade center site for months. and we plan to be there for years to come. but one version of this project is already complete. and it's giving us a unique look at the future of ground zero. >> a picture is worth 1,000 words. the model is worth a million is what we like to say. >> shepard: it's a world lived in miniature. but there's nothing small about models in the world of construction. >> ed wood and lefa are partners in a model making firm based in hoboken, new jersey. as first thought, you might imagine glue and airplanes but this isn't child's play. >> it's extremely precise and that's something the eye will perceive. a scale model especially one that we make, it doesn't get clunky or heavy when it's reduced to a smaller scale. >> shepard: achieving this precision means taking architectural plans and shrinking them. with those plans, model makers use tools common to many garage work shops and others that aren't. like a laser wit

. >> brown: kanye as keats? li'l wayne as whitman?o quite that far, perhaps, but it does ask for recognition for rap in the poetic tradition. >> ♪ i'm living in the 21st century doing something mean to it ♪ doing better than anybody you've ever seen do it... ♪ >> lehrer: again, the major developments of the day: a jailed chinese dissident was honored in absentia with the nobel peace prize; and president obama met with former president clinton and won his support for the tax cut deal. mr. clinton said, "i don't believe there is a better deal out there." and to hari sreenivasan in our newsroom for what's on the newshour online. hari. >> sreenivasan: watch more of jeff's interview's with common, kurtis blow, and the editor of the "anthology of rap" on "art beat." and we have more on the conviction of three new orleans police officers in a killing and cover up after hurricane katrina. we talk to one of the reporters who helped break the story. all that and more is on our web site, newshour.pbs.org. jeff. >> brown: and that's the newshour

this is the article that is dated april 6, posted by joshua keating, f.p. pass -- know, that's not the -- i'll put this in the record. it's from "foreign policy.com post. and at the end of my comments i'll ask it be put in the record. "it appears that russian defense minister lavrov isn't quite ready to pop the champagne on the new nuclear arms reduction agreement that will be signed in prague this week. russia will have the right to exit the accord if the u.s. buildup of its strategic potential in numbers and quality considers to considerably a. effect the ability of russian nuclear forces," lavrov told reporterreporters today. "going on was th major stick pot in the treaty after the united states announced floons build new facilities in bulgaria and romania," that was after the withdrawal of the radar from the czech republic and the missiles from poland. continuing on with, "as f.p.'s josh rogan reported, a work around to the solution was reached in which the issue of missile defense is not mentioned in the preamble itself. the obama administration has be

a couple of the right-hand lanes will be shut down still moving in the grain in the keating top speeds. the span of the same tale looks good, no problems, strong wind advisory has been cancelled. nice, like conditions in both directions. right hand side, traffic in the commute direction. same store for golden gate sub bound ones your wife just a couple cars headed southbound. updating your ride in the south bay north, south, right near term but the lakers. no proms, traffic is moving at the limit now back up on the interchange. will. >> thank you, days of weather delays are apparently over most flights on time and, good news, they're not expected to be delayed today. when travelers were stranded in airports or trade, the draft rights. many contact nonprofit from the bay area to ask for help reggie kumar talks to people who saw a huge spike in calls. >> kate can i sit in front of her computer listening to some of the 800 complaints over three days from passengers who feel like they're left in the cold by the airlines. >> up and not going to be able to get a flight until december 31st it

big healthcare overhayes constitutional. 20 states versus the feds in a florida courtroom and phil keatings live with an update from pensacola. >> reporter: spirited legal points, counter points and devil's advocate questioning by the judge in downtown pensacola. each side got about an hour to make its case as to whether obama's healthcare reform is constitutional or not. the plaintiffs, the 20 attorneys general does not have the power to force every american to buy health insurance. they are argue declining to buy healthcare coverage is not an activity. >> the argument that should be persuasive to this court and we hope will be is it's unconstitutional because there is no enumerated power in the constitution that gives congress the right to tell people they have to buy products or else suffer a penalty. >> reporter: after president obama signed the affordable care act into law. florida's attorney general filed this lawsuit. he argued it's also unconstitutional to force the states to expand their medicaid programs which will cost florida alone about a billion dollars a year. the government

jon: phil keating live in miami. phil, thank you. to know more about what nasa has found, be sure to tune in to "america live," 2 p.m. eastern. they'll bring you live what nasa has to say about the possibility of extraterrestrial life. that news conference gets under way during that show. jenna: well, speaking of e.t., ever wonder how many stars are really out there? a new study suggests there are 300 sextillionn of them. you can see on paper it's a 3 followed by 23 0s, about the size of jon scott's bank account -- jon: about the size of the federal deficit, i think. [laughter] jenna: in general, there's just a lot of stars out there. so there you go. something you didn't know. jon: who counted all those? jenna: good question. jon: hey, the tax cut showdown is live on capitol hill after democrats and republicans battle over whether or not to extend the bush tax cuts. a vote is set for today. can anybody come propose? we'll talk with republican mike pence about what lies ahead. call imperial structured settlements. the experts at impe

phil keating is live in miami, what is happening there, phil?d morning, bill, this is not just a florida situation, all across the nation, almost every state, there were federal grant dollars given to specifically train unemployed people to get green skills for the new green economy. the obama administration budgeted $90 billion of the $870 billion stimulus bill, law, specifically, for green energy, and green jobs, but, here's what the white house on background released to me. they say so far the past 18 months, the obama administration and its priorities, on getting clean energy jobs created the 224, 500,000 -- 224,500 clean energy jobs which is about 25% of all jobs, that have been created with government tax dollars and unfortunately that is far shy of what president obama publicly stated early in his administration, he had hoped 5 million green jobs could be created. in ocala, florida where the unemployment rate is 14%, a lot of unemployed have taken the job training class and the reality is for those graduates, only 25% of them have actuall

it was a great move by former prime minister keating to lift the meeting to leader level. was pleased to see that within our region the spirit of free trade and economic liberalism is still very alive and well. trade means jobs. >> my question is to the prime minister. i remind the prime minister that the government has lost its way. the questioning system has been ruled invalid. they avoided hard decisions and of the bank ignored the prime minister. i asked the prime minister if this government is fighting its way a bit like others. >> the prime minister -- >> thank you very much, mr. speaker. i think the leader for his question. he is obviously looking more to the christmas break. can i say to the leader of the opposition? the government is getting onto the job of delivering reform in this country because we want this nation to build to the opportunities of the future. i know that the leader of the opposition finds this hard to intellectual lines. it is hard to accept. there was a super model that said that she did not get out of bed for less than $10,000 a day. the lead

be prepared for seven reductions of visibility, visibility chaired, see this area of orange in the keatingility of a mile ls. that's the case around the peninsula, east bay, napa valley. we're actually getting a bit of an improvement to now go with a mile and a half visibility napa still at a quarter mile san francisco, hayward, oakland problems was visibility attentive a mile. five check and we're continuing the dense fog do is our into the next hour holding on to that fog to the east bay, portions of the peninsula concord. it looks like will see some lifting by 11:00. into the afternoon, dry, cloudy bring the rain into the picture for tomorrow, heavy rain into early evening and late evening as well. all of this red, purple very heavy downpours certainly significant expected to last into the early morning under wednesday as well choir wet day. by wednesday afternoon you'll see some lifting, expecting to see quite a bit of wet weather on wednesday right now temperatures in the 40's, warming oven to the 50s. here is a look at your 7 day around the bay. 0 wet week ahead. to the austere 2010

arrive at a position that is keeping the government open, keeping social security checks going out of keating veterans services provided, but at the same time, is prudent when it comes to taxpayer dollars. john? >> someone on the left have a question what your values are. what will you go to the mat on? all right, this is where i cannot budge, and along those lines, what is going to be different in 2012 when all these tax cuts again are up for a vote? >> what is going to be different is we will have had two years to discuss the budget. over the last two years the republicans have had the benefit of watching us take these emergency actions, have us preside over a $1.3 trillion deficit we inherited. over the next two years, they are going to show me what it is that they think they can do. i think it becomes pretty clear after you go through the budget line by line that if in fact they want to pay for $700 billion worth of tax breaks to will the individuals, that that is a lot of money, and that the cuts that would have to be made are very painful. either they rethink their position or they will