>> we'll take a quick break and be right back with ken burns. president obama: i'm barack obama and i approve... this message. anncr: victims. dependent. that's what mitt romney called forty-seven percent... of americans. including people on medicare. but what about his plan for you? romney would replace guaranteed benefits with a voucher system. seniors could pay six thousand dollars more a year. a plan aarp says would undermine medicare. you're no victim...you earned your benefits. don't let mitt romney take them away. >>> we're back from more from ken burns from "the dust bowl." let me end on a very passionate subject and that's baseball. >> oh, no. >> i remember, here i am, i grew up in los angeles a dodgers fan, still a.m. but i love the nationals and my kids do. i remember saying, i have a 10-year-old and 7-year-old twins, i can remember the first time the dodgers won the pennant i was 7 and bill russell came home and i remember the beer flying through the air. i said, if only that could happen for the nationals for my kids. i was at game

now an update on someone who loves what he does and is making a difference, them ken burns.case from ten years ago is being shown around the country before it's official release. >> everyone remembered where a woman was raped about but what we forgot, five black children were held for a really long time. had confessions coerced and went to jail upwards of 13 years at which point the oldest bumped into the guy who is the actual perpetrator who felt guilty and had a crisis of conscience, something that the cops the d. d.a. didn't have. >> gavin: now they have a documentary including footage not shown in the film. he has been subpoenaed twice. and needless to say the filmmaker is fighting for his rights. that's all for now. stay with us on facebook, twitter and have a great night. [ ♪ music ♪ ] >> there is not a problem that exists that hasn't been solved by someone somewhere. >> focus on the folks who are making a difference, that are not just dreamers but doers. mitt romney, you're wrong. we need more teachers, not fewer teachers and more cops and more firefighters that suppo

. >>> filmmaker ken burns is refusing to give the city of new york outtakes from his latest film.t the five men who ultimately were exonerated in the 1989 rape of a jogger in new york's central park. the city says it has a right to the clip as part of the lawsuit the so-called central park five filed against city hall. susan candiotti has the story for you. >> reporter: this documentary, the latest project of filmmaker ken burns whose daughter is co-director, tells the story of five black and latino teenagers. they were convicted of raping and brutally beating a white female jogger in new york's central park in 1989. >> it was this huge media story. there was a lot of coverage, but everyone got it wrong at that time. >> she was hollering, help, help. >> reporter: the five teenagers confessed to the crime after what they said was an unfair interrogation. they were charged even though none was a match for a dna sample found at the scene. turns out it belonged to this man. >> he commits at least five more rapes that we know of after the central park jogger. >> reporter: but the seria

be sure to stay tuned after the program for my conversation with ken burns on nbc 4. >> with so much going on in politics right now, "saturday night live" had more than enough material to work with. >> last week's heated debate with president obama and governor romney poking contend over the issues. >> governor romney keeps mentioning this five-point plan. do you want to see them, this is one, two, three, four, five right here, bam, that's my plan. >> i have a one point plan for you, do you want to see it? >> president obama, you know obviously we need to do everything we can to become energy independent. >> really, then why have you cut drilling permits on federal land by half. >> not true. >> you didn't cut anything, you're not going to cut anything? >> i'm about to cut you. >> the show also poked a little fun at people on long island where the debate happened, you can see it every saturday on nbc 4. and i can't think of someone watching the debate more closely than the writers for snl. >> they get it almost word for word and then they throw in a little jab or cut. >> it's good. >>

. >> this documentary, the latest project of ken burns, whose daughter is co-director, telling the story of five black and latino teenagers. they were convicted of raining and brutally beelting a white female jogger in new york's central park in 1989. >> it was a huge media story. there was a lot of coverage, but everything got it wrong at that time. >> the five teenagers confessed to the crime after what they said was an unfair interrogation. they were charged even though none was a match for a dna sample found at the scene. turns out it belonged to this man. >> he commits at least five more ra rapes that we know of after. >> the serial rapist did not confess until after the five teens served sentences ranging for 7 to 11 years. a judge threw out the convictions. >> the verdicts have been set aside in their entirety. >> a victory for the five men usef was one of them. >> after being exonerated it's like somebody running through free through the grass and throwing their hands up yelling. it's such a -- the feeling is of overjoy and happiness. >> harder to overturn was public perception.

ken burns. mr. burns from "the simpsons." excellent. excel. microsoft excel."point break." "breaking even." "even stevens" on the disney channel. disney world, it's a small world. it's a small town. town square. square root. the roots. greatest band of all the land. they're lending a hand on nbc. studio 6b. "late night" with me, jimmy fallon. how do you like me now? [ cheers and applause ] >> i get it, man. you're better than me. this is all i had going for me though. i'm out of here. [ audience aws ] >> jimmy: hey. ♪ come on, man. hey, come on back. i was just joking. [ light laughter ] all right, come on, hey, i was just making a joke here. you're the only guy we had in the audience, so i thought we could just riff and goof off together. come on, man. i mean, it's just you. i could change what i -- that's, yeah. [ applause ] thanks, man. [ audience aws ] oh, man, this is just unbelievable. come on, man. this is -- come on. i don't even know if you can get out that way. how are you going to get out then? i mean, this is -- don't put your hands on the thing an

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from ken burns... an epic saga of lands scarred. dreams buried. and hopes reborn. the dust bowl.nly on pbs. >> susie: i'm susie gharib with an nbr news brief. from dupont to 3m, weak blue chip earnings lead the way lower on wall street today. the dow fell 243 points, the nasdaq lost 26, and the s&p was down 20. investors "liked" facebook's latest earnings. the social media leader earned 12 cents a share, a penny above analysts estimates, on revenues of $1.25 billion. after months of speculation, apple took the wraps off the ipad mini, but it boasts a not- so mini starting price, $329. late today, sirius x/m satellite radio chief mel karmazin said he'll step down february 1 when his employment contract expires. tomorrow, federal reserve policymakers wrap up a two-day meeting. economist diane swonk joins us to discuss the outcome. for more financial news, tune in to nbr weeknights on this public television stat

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. >> and ken burns, people loved him the last time he was on, he is fascinating. he has a new documentary about the dust bowl. he talks civility, politics, and sports about how nats fans have to deal with our loss. >> still? >> yeah, he is very good. >>> let's go over to chuck to find out how our weather will wrap it up this weekend. >> a beautiful way to get your second half of the weekend started. a clear sky overhead. 50 degrees at national airport, but we won't b take away his toys and he'll play with a stick. take away their bikes and they'll still find a way to get where they're going. but if take you away early childhood education... slash k-12 funding... and cut college aid for middle class families ... they won't go far. yet that's exactly what mitt romney wants to do... ...to pay for a $250,000 tax break for multi-millionaires. if mitt romney wins, the middle class loses. priorities usa action is responsible for the content of this advertising. >>> well, if you were up late, you might have seen quite a sight in the sky. the meteor shower produced about 2

. >>> lawyers for new york city have issued a subpoena to documentary filmmaker ken burns.ive." it is about the five men ultimately exonerated in 1989, central park rape case. those men are suing the city for $250 million. burns' lawyers say before they turn over anything the city must prove material t materials are vital to their defense and unavailable elsewhere. >>> actress and environmental activist daryl had an arrested again over the keystone pipeline. her rep said she stood in front of an excavator in texas for the controversial pipeline. she was arrested outside the white house last year in an earlier protest against the pipeline. >>> american astronaut in russia. he is about to embark on a mission to the stars with a couple of cosmonauts. astronaut kevin ford is standing by. there he is live. we are going to talk to him right after this quick break. energy is being produced to power our lives. while energy development comes with some risk, north america's natural gas producers are committed to safely and responsibly providing generations of cleaner-burning energy f

and during that time i convened a kind of think tank including steven ambrose and ken burns, and i invitedank, try to figure out, how do we frame the last 100 years. and doris told me she was writing a book about lincoln's presidency. at that moment, i said, "are the film rights available?" literally that day. because i had always really wanted to do something on lincoln but not until i knew doris was the one that was going to put it down on paper that i threw my hat into the ring at that point. >> you know, "saving private ry ryan" sort of defined world war ii for a lot of people who didn't live through it. this movie will define lincoln and the 13th amendment. i have to ask what's knocking around in your head now? what's your next project in terms of history? >> i hope linken never stops knocking around in my head. this is one film that i don't feel like taking the froth coat off and getting back into something else. i am getting back into science fiction. it's not because -- it's not a reaction to history. it's just that, you know, this has been a deep, you know, passion for me. and now

burning the butter. >> stop it, goldie. >> very quickly, ken. >> this morning on "good morning america" she was very humanizing a chance to adopt a softer tone. on fox, ironically, a very friendly format, she took a harder edge, sharper tone which does not really help the presidential campaign because it doesn't do what some of the things goldie was talking about. >> ken vogel, goldie taylor and jonathan "beep" capehart, thank you. >>> the affirmative action case which could change the playing field for millions of americans. stay with us. >> you're to keep the employment programs and cut taxes by 20% and you're going to build more submarines and destroyers than the pentagon even wants and then finally tackle our immoral debt and deficit. i'm going to ask you a question. let me see if i got it here. as an american voter, i think this is important. are you a wizard? >> i don't believe that. that's not me. two years ago, the people of bp made a commitment to the gulf. bp has paid over twenty-three billion dollars to help those affected and to cover cleanup costs. today, the beaches and gulf are open, and many ar

ken bastida, cbs 5. >>> a fire in the south bay gutted a family home sending two people to the hospital with burns. neighbors had reported hearing popping noises. that may have been the ammunition that the homeowner says he stored in the home on carl tan avenue near union. cause of the fire is under investigation. >>> another early-morning house fire this one in the mission district is under investigation. that fire started on the deck of a house on fair avenue before moving into the rest of the home. one person inside the house got out safely. >>> other bay area headlines, the couple caught driving the car that belonged to a retired teacher in hercules will be charged with her murder. darnell and tania washington were arrested two days ago in washington state. they were inside 55-year-old susie ko's blue subaru. >>> the vallejo police bomb squad detonated explosives found inside a house on georgia street. police arrested 51-year-old keith allen oliveira this morning and ended up removing and detonating six pipe bombs. police were tipped off because oliveira was apparently testing his bombs in his

kens tv cameraman david villareal. >> i got my -- >> you okay? >> yeah. >> the heat radiated very intensely. i got second and third degree burnsand the only thing i can think of was to grab my camera and cover my face. >> the super-heated vapor cloud scorches everyone nearby. >> the fire and the cloud was just like a mushroom cloud, just like one of the atomic explosions you would see on tv. >> people down there going to be burnt bad. >> lisa helps treat several badly burned firefighters. >> i remember we started taking off people's shirts and just pouring some of the water, the drinking water, on them or soaking their teeshirts in ice water, putting them back on there. >> give me that glass of water. my arm's burning. >> we had to triage and get the worst ones we thought needed to get to the hospital, of course the ones that skin was coming off and couldn't walk or burned, you know, more than 25%, 30% of their body. >> the oil tank catches fire hours earlier. lisa stewart is one of the first responders. >> the flames were shooting up hundreds of yards and black smoke was just everywhere. >> when cameraman david villareal gets

. >> kel melman who managed burns re-election campaign said in a presidential year three months out you can only do 30 minutes of aerobic exercise a day. that's ken'sule. he won 2004. i'm going with that. >> you'll win, that's good. >> what about ryan defending his record? >> i think he's going to be extremely well prepared for lines of attack that joe biden's going to have. but again -- i think that paul ryan's going to do pretty well. he is aggressive. he likes to engage. he likes to fight. we've seen that in the house for a while. >> i think it's going to be played to both of their strengths that they're seated because they have a personal relationship. they kind of like each other, as strange as that may seem in the political world. >> yes. >> when seated you're not as combative. >> that's right. >> it's a different dynamic. >> very conversational. it's amazing people aren't questioning whether ryan will be nervous. he's a poised guy. so much national experience. dine think anybody thinks he's going to go in and have a deer in the headlight moment. >> people are talking about him running for president. thank you so much. mark halperin, maggie h

ken lay, dennis koslowski, criminals, the evil genous who towered over them. one man has the guts to say his name. >> big bird. >> reporter: reporting live from alison burns, ktvuews. >>> 8:17 for first time in history, the united states has not have a protestant majority. the percentage of protestant adults has fallen to 48%. at the same time -- >>> the chp says a car hit a bicyclist -- the bicyclists while in a group yesterday afternoon. one bicyclist suffered minor injuries but the other was seriously hurt. the driver stayed at the scene and is cooperating with investigators. >>> oakland stillfullies estimate damage from weekend vandalism at around 12,000. workers spent the day cleaning and the oakland tribune and city hall. the damage came after about $it00 -- after about $200 -- after about 200 people marched downtown. no arrests have been made. >> union workers and community groups are boycotting a northern california grocery store chain. military i pueblo has 21 stores -- mi pueblo has 21 stores. chain's founder is a former illegal immigrant and eppromises to rehire any worker who a-- who attains their citizenship. >>> i i felt a blow to my mouth and i h