>> well, we had a kingston spill. >> that's kingston, tennessee, where, in december 2008, a giant retention pool of coal ash buckled under the weight of five decades of waste. >> all the power lines have been knocked out. >> a billion gallons of muck shot into the emory river like a black tsunami... >> one person in the house, and he's alive. >> engulfing homes, uprooting trees... >> everything's gone. >> and throwing fish out of the water. >> no, don't eat the fish, please. >> residents woke up to an apocalyptic moonscape of ash bergs everywhere. >> this stuff is just sitting there, steaming. >> the spill was a hundred times larger than the exxon valdez, and it was all coal ash. >> you'd never heard of coal ash before kingston. >> never. >> never. >> never. >> wasn't a problem. >> well, it was a problem; we just didn't know. the problem is, where do you put all that stuff? here, the tennessee valley authority, tva, dumped up to 1,000 tons of coal ash every day into a wet pond near the plant, slowly amassing a waste cake 60 feet high. some of the ingredients, according to the e.p.a.: arseni

kingston's letter was dated february the 19th. at that point, this opinion had been explicitly and unambiguously rejected by the inspector general and kingston knew it. she also authorized that all disputed invoices be paid. the invoices authorized for payment by miss kingston were the very same ones previously rejected by the inspector general's office -- contract officer representative. their rejection was based on advice from the inspector general's legal counsel. kingston's actions showed blatant disregard for the contract and authorized payments alleged to be fraudulent. then on april the 15th, the central accounting agency's contract officer, normand gomelach, effectively eliminated independent oversight by the inspector general. he issued a letter terminating the inspector -- the two inspector general contract officer representatives, a known flaw in the contract allowed this to happen. gomelach's termination order was retroactive to january 27, 2010, the very same day the inspector general revealed its intention to issue t

she was one of royal canadian's navy's 12 kingston's classics. built in 1985 as part of the maritime project. he was built with sophisticated warfare equipment. she has proven herself extending far beyond her title. her main elements include 40 millimeter gun, and two, 50 caliber man guns. edmonton is a sophisticated weapon in canada an arsenal. he's has a draft of only 11 feet. she has a displacement of 1,000 tons. edmonton was laid down on 8 august, 1995 by halifax unlimited in halifax, nova scotia and commissioned in the canadian forces on 21 june, 1987 and then asigned to maritime forces pacific based in british columbia. since that time, she has participated in numerous coastal prayings, including escourt operations, century and rescue, fisheries patrols and good will port visits. the most recent accomplishments came in 2010 when she travelled to puerta vallarta, mexico. in support of maritime security to the 2010 winter olympic games in vancouver. ladies and gentlemen, at this time, please stand and salute the edmonton. thank you. please be

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many years, if you think back the first writer who was read in terms of asian american was maxine kingston. i read her in high school and was greatly affected by reading about the woman warrior. before her there were few. there were some but didn't make that economic splash. they were never read in a large way. maxine was the first one we read her in school we knew of her. she was not out there like anny tan was when she wrote the joy luck club. so much of it is timing. it meant all the history and the voices before then had been silent. my generation of writers came in and we heard stories of women and men and the family of a different generation. a lot of us had been writing about that because they were silenced for so long. i am involved with the book prize. it's a pacific rim book prize in which books come from asia and all over the pacific rim. in the last 11 years it's been a prize we read so many books that have come from voices of new writers. i'm always amazed and they are writing different storers i wrote when i started. all the people have come through now. if you look at the li

steve kingston, "bbc news," washington. >> for more, i am joined by a senior correspondent for national journal. thank you for coming in. is this what this is really all about. it sounds like a soap opera. there is sex involved, and that is why we are interested in it, or is there more to it? does it matter? >> it sounds like an august scandal in washington where congress is out and they are looking for something to cover. it is november this time. i think that it could be what you see on the surface, which is some people giving into temptation in high places. the mighty have fallen. but if it puts a lot of tension between the f.b.i. and the c.i.a., which they have always had a lot of tension between those two anyway, if you have the white house and congress disagreeing about the time line and who knew what when, this could have a lot of legs. it could be unfortunate for a president just starting out a second term. >> if this really was not an issue of national security but just an affair between two consenting adults, then the f.b.i., there they are, they put out six or seven agents an

steve kingston, bbc news, staten island. >> sadness there on staten island. just a short time ago i should say that new york's mayor, michael bloomberg, has announced that the city's marathon which was due to be held this sunday has been cancelled. for more, i'm joined from new york by the bbc's ben thompson. ben, as steve was reporting, there has been a lot of controversy over whether the marathon should go ahead. what's behind this final decision? >> yeah. many people here in new york -- staten island is really still a dissenter of recovery efforts in the wake of hurricane sandy. incidentally, staten island is where the new york marathon begins every year. that marathon then passes through fire boroughs of new york city. but a lot of conservativecy here that resources should be better used to make sure that the reese cue efforts are completed and that people are back in safety. although that the facilities should be used to make sure the power is back on. still thousands of people here in new york city and beyond still do not have power. within the last few

heroes, what did you want to do for this country in >> three of us were in a plane flying around kingston4 pilot is the oldest pilot in the state of north carolina and i looked at the other twompt the president and governor and even the mayor in kingston all they can talk to is about jobs. you think we could create a couple of can jobs. we could do that but we would do five or six old men. when the day was over. we found five and now we had five plus the three of us and now we have 80 . the question eightment -eightment eight. we wanted to get the day-to-day operations and so we took a piece of fabric that i co-authored a patent and we had a fantastic run if nasa on and when that was over. that went in sheets and blankkets and pillow cases and people can buy those sheets that are manufactured in kingston, north carolina it is a wonderful sheet to put on the bed. you go from wet to dry in four or five minutes, we took the fabric and had shirts made. i attended the arm yenavy war colleges and decided i would go up to the army war college to it and larry goodson, my mentor up there looked at

having great literary artists here has continued right down to today and it includes people like kingston and ishmael reed, who witnessed a great deal. ishmael was a fantastic teacher of creative writing. he actually got his students published and he also made an anthology of his students. my favorite story is that he read a number of columns at the mla, you know from the major professional organization of english departments, which he read columbus by wallace stevens and robert frost and t.s. eliot along with student poems and try to get the professors in the audience to tell who had written what. and they couldn't do it. [laughter] in any event, these professors i say of writing also teach courses in world literature is and in literary criticism. there is a formidable array of members of the english department now, with this demand on the part of students has gotten greater and greater. for instance, i'm using poetry here and that both said aristotle, talking about poetry as creative writing and so one. amongst prose writers, for instance, people who teach courses euratom carver, bharat

photographs, they had a meal together, there is an effort underway in the town where millvinia lived in kingston, georgia, to do some commemorative work. she was in a cemetery, church cemetery, an effort to try to get one and i hear from the shield's family often about when that will happen because they would like to come. i don't know how long this kind of connection and interest will last that they are still interested. >> any more questions? we have just a little bit of time? no time. thank you, rachel. thank you so much. in her book, trains have been coming true nine reports that former allies of the first lady. this is just over 50 minutes. >> welcome to the richard nixon presidential library museum. my name is paul wormser and the exact give director of the library. i appreciate all of you coming to one of our continuing talks and presentations. today we are very fortunate to have the leading scholar on pat nixon who 100 years ago this year. mary brennan, who did much of the research year is the chair of the department of history at the university of texas. her specialty is post-world war

lieu kingston who runs brother's brother foundation says he's seen many charities inflate values of giftsn kind. why? to trick donors. >> that means that they can declare a lower overhead cost, they can claim more effect to the public than the real dollars might indicate. >> reporter: here are the numbers, in its 2011 tax return, dvnf reported $29 million in cash donations but also said it received and then donated nearly $9 million of gifts in kind. spca international received $14 million in cash donations and received and then shipped $5 million of gifts in kind. the only actual cash money involved in the gifts was the $500,000 roy tidwell was paid to arrange the shipment. >> it's a very simplistic answer to say, why don't they give away money? >> but when they're collecting tens of millions of dollars, it seems a logical question to ask. >> my portion of it is getting goods to help people who are suffering. goods that i can deliver for pennies on the dollar. and most places that get them are very appreciative. >> reporter: even if it is 11,000 bags of coconut m & ms. >> drew, it just d

kingston and zumi here.ar brim on and his head phones. graphic ts are huge, zuma, combat boot look going on. he's wearing little trend stars. >> all right. real quick. we'll get to one more quick look, honor, jessica alba's daughter, and we have 4-year-old ella, come on out, ella and enjoy the boys. they are not leaving. the boys aren't leaving for some reason. here they are, the ladies' turn. >> hi, daddy. >> i love it. >> this is ela. ela is just precious. has a twin sister named olivia, wish i could have them both here >> i can't see daddy. >> ela is wearing a crew krutz j. crew scarf over an old navy performance fleece, wearing j. crew cut neon leggings. >> so cute. >> and little gray suede booties. >> ela, thanks so much. >> quite a crew here. we'll be back, but first this is "today." daddy's at home. this is "today" on nbc. >> ella, ella, wave to oh, you have a keurig vue brewer? oh, it's great! now i can brew my coffee just the way i love it. how do you do that? well, inside the brewer, there's this t

let's go to kingston, washington, rsose. caller: hi. thank you. this cliff thing is a democrat idea. i don't think the republicans should give in. let the democrats to give in for a change. the republicans should hold back. if we have to go over the cliff, it is not the republicans taking us over the cliff. it is the democrats. we have a democratic president and a democratic senate. they are the ones -- look at all the stuff that got done in the senate. all year we paid their salaries and we did not get nothing from it. thank you. host: arnold tweets -- the white house has put out a report called "the middle class ."x cuts let's go to mary in illinois and joining us to talk about republican flexibility on the anti-tax pledge. caller: good morning. i would like to talk about how grover norquist has been the target of the democrats. let's talk about senator dick durbin and president obama's pledged to richard trumka and randi weingarten about no cuts in spending. we don't think to talk about -- demonize them. our center dick durbin and president oba

news, so i cannot really comment on fox other than to say it might be a good idea if our fries from kingstonhat other folks are saying and not ly upon one source of news. when you rely only on one news source, it can be somewhat biased. i think the president is doing a good job, and i am really looking forward to another four years of president obama. host: st. charles, missouri. dale is a democrat a calller. caller: i was born and raised a republican. after voting for presidential elections for the past 30 years as a democrat makes me a democrat. the question i have, that i would like you to address is the single-issue voters that the republicans catered to, we see numerous examples of people from texas in particular that have a belief system that is not based on facts. i am curious why the democratic party has not addressed the single issue voters. i keep asking people. what did you get for the gun issues from george bush, ronald reagan, there administrations of the congress? th cannot tell me. ditto abortion issues. ditto gay rights. there does not appear to be any better relations -- leg

schriebman: at our last debate in kingston, we would have such a sharp disagreement on so many issues, it's important to pause and record as where we have areas of agreement. politics traditionally should end at the water's edge about the congressman has said about israel i would echo about it. we have a good strong relationship there and there's very good reasons for having a good strong relationship with the democratic traditions of israel and with a powerful ally they have been for us in that region. >> moderator: our second viewer question from casey. >> mr. schriebman, there's a very good chance to be looked at the polls in coverage that the house will stay in republican control after november. a question from stephen hayes asks how are you going to work with the opposite party the bills are needed to the entire country not held up by partisanship? schriebman: first of all, the person committed to serving the community can make an enormous difference in congress. by ensuring the folks serving back here in the regional offices are responsive and ensure they are dedicated and follo