kirby!> reporter: his aunt peggy happened to be walking by and took it upon herself to have kirby's microchip checked. >> they scanned him and they gave me the name of sharon rattery who i had known years ago through church. it was kind of disbelief. i was in shock. >> i've never seen a pet come up to visit a grave. >> reporter: it turn out kirby wandered several miles from home to the exact place where sharnl and her daughter susan are buried side by side. the very site kirby stood when both women were laid to rest. >> everybody feels pain all the way down to our pets. >> all kinds of tang today, huh? >> reporter: dave and his family know they can't give kir by the lifestyle he's use to snex hasn't been himself since my grandma died. >> reporter: now the search is on for someone who can. someone not looking to replace what kirby had but to give him a new place to call home. >> i think he knows. i really do. he has got to. >> he definitely knows. >> as you heard, kirby is looking for a new h

paul kirby of telecommunications reports, next question. >> host: now, many years this annual report to congress is released, and it doesn't get much attention. this year one reason it does is because of the merger that fcc and justice are considering. groups are trying to use the report saying, look, they do not determine effective competition for the send year in a row. at&t has said even though they didn't determine that, we think it shows how many carriers people have choices of. wanted to get your views from the politics standpoint if you think this report will continue to be used, if you will, by the two sides in the merger proceeding. >> guest: i'm sure people will continue to use it. chief in the report, it's an important body of work, but i think more important is the underlying docket and proceedings at the fcc that they look to and what's more important to the ultimate outcome of whether or not the industry remains competitive. whether or not the fcc levels the playing field and make entry and growth by smaller carriers more possible and more profitable for them, possibly.

matt wood is the policy director, paul kirby of telecommunications reports. next question? >> often this report does not get much attention, but because of the merger. they are considering, groups and companies who are proposed the merger say, look, they cannot determine the effective competition for the second year and a row, that shows the merger should not be approved. at&t says we think it shows how many carriers people have choices of. i wanted to get your views on the public's standpoint, will this report continue to be used by the two sides? >> people will continue to use it. more and partly, it is an important document that the fcc has assembled. it is the underlying issues they looked into. what is more important, the ultimate outcome is whether the fcc pushes those levers that it can to promote competition and level the playing field and make entry of growth by smaller carriers were possible and profitable. i think it is in the death of a larger problem they have. they have members on both sides of the merger, with sprint opposing the merger and pointing out what

. >> host: joined by paul kirby, a regular with telecommunications report. thanks. >> the report says to measure concentration in the industry was 2048 by the middle of 2010, slightly higher than 2008, but nearly 700 points higher than 2003 and antitrust authorities to give a sense say 2500 is a market that's highly concentrated. should this be a concern for regulator as consumers, chris? >> guest: you referred to hhi, and hhi measures concentration, not competition, and so when we look at hhi numbers, the same report that you're referencing shortly after it gives us numbers or states 245 the united states has the second lowest hhi among all the developed world in terms of sort of the wrong numbers, and so i think you have to look at the market and how it is structured. this is an extremely capital intensive market. it requires capital expenditures significant amount each year, and so you see a marketplace in the united states that differs from those around the world for the positive in terms of how the consumers see it. our, you know, top carriers have a si

. >> turned out they were selling kirby vacuum cleaners. they went into the bedroom and started to scrub but it turned into an all day demonstration. >> i said you got to go and they stayed for hours and hours they talked me to buying a kirby. >> she gave in and signed this agreement. these would pay $2300 for vacuum cleaner plus $861 in finance charges. $3,411 in all. she paid $250 deposit and gave the salespeople her old vacuum cleaner. however, as soon as they left she wished she hadn't. >> what am i thinking. i got a small house. yes, there is dog hair all over but i don't need a vacuum cleaner that cost that much. under the contract and under state law, a consumer has three business days to cancel a sale made from a door-to-door sales contract. she returned the kirby and she wanted her $250 deposit back. >> i said i would like my check back. they said we have take it to the office but i never did get it. i called over ten times. >> she kept calling the distributor, suds fringed san jose. >> they refused to talk to me. >> she went out a

>> probably not kirby the bear. she is probably hoping for something like a peacock or -- >> you know, between all the kardashian sisters, i think they make $65 million a year, so, you know, you live your life in a fishbowl. that's what she was talking about. >> she probably feels like she lives in a cage because everybody is always staring at her and taking pictures. >> we'll leave it there. exactly. >>> from beverly hills in california where tinseltown is in a tizzy anticipating the arrival of prince william and catherine. is the royal couple ready for hollywood? their trip to the west coast has inspired one unique artistic expression, if you will. unveiled yesterday it features the newlyweds and a hovering angelic princess diana. the proceeds will go to three charities, including one chosen by the couple themselves. hmm. >>> i'm veronica de la cruz, this is "early today," just your first stop of the day on your nbc station. >>> summertime in the city. 4:28 is our time. 75 degrees already. as you look at the hazy

she mailed in the form called the company and returned the kirby.$250 back. >> i said i'd like my check back. he said we have to get that from the office. and i assumed i would. i never d i called over 10 times. >> lisa kept calling the sales distributor. >> the call back never came. they refused to talk to me. >> she went and bought this simple vacuum cleaner. then contacted 7 on your side. we contacted the distributor suds incorporated the owner tells us waits a mistake. the check was ready but never mailed saying we do take responsibility and refund funded her $250 plus $70 more for her old vacuum cleaner. now she's vacuuming up after her dog. >> i won't have gotten it if i hadn't been for 7 on your side. >> california law allows consumers to cancel other transactions such as electric contracts and health club memberships. i posted a ling on what is covered and how long you'll find that information on abc 7 news under 7 on your side. >> good sales person makes it difficult owe oo yes. seemed like a good idea. and you have time. you can change. >>

earlier i spoke with derek crowe from the social justice kirby brave new foundation he thinks the u.s. prefers private contractors because they aren't as easy as regular troops to bring to court. these folks are not the people that you see held up as as kind of paragons of american patriotism they're not uniform troops they are private for profit contractors and they are much much easier for a president to use politically because they're not who we typically think of as the troops or our brave men and women on the ground that would like to talk about it with reference to regular forces and so because of that and because they're a private company operating in kind of a jurisdictional black box you don't have the embarrassment usually i guess that you would if u.s. soldiers were on the ground in these conflicts far beyond the usual mandate and they are there since they're not as accountable as u.s. forces to the u.s. government and to the american people they're able to get away with a lot more and so presidents tend to want to use them any time any foreign force goes in and kills local

world needs nearly two trillion dollars a year in technology investments to fight global warming and kirby quadruple destruction but half of that two trillion will go to developing nations to deal with surging food and energy to me rob was the author of the u.n. survey warned business as usual is not an option without drastic improvements in green technologies we will not reverse the ongoing ecological destruction and secure a decent livelihood for all of human. i think two trillion a year in global wealth is a small price to pay preserve the safety of our species and the planet that we live on also a great place to get the money the oil industry oil fundamentally is really nasty stuff. the environment words drilled it causes cancer alleys like down in louisiana in texas where you get all these refineries and produces asthma cancer and other diseases whenever it's born burned rather most of what we use most of the oil that we use actually more than fifty percent actually comes from other countries and so as you know coming from other countries we've got to it you know spend that money it b

kirby, you go, girl! good. why are you a libertarian? derivatives and there are certain areas where i didn't agree with the republican party line. >> glenn: who can tell me the difference between a republican and libertarian? c'mon, guys. >> republicans like to spend money. just as much -- >> glenn: i don't think you raised your hand as a republican, did you? tell me, somebody who raised their hand as republican, tell me the difference. oliver? >> jeply social issues where they differ from the libertarians. lishtarians want to stay -- >> glenn: let's take the social issues for a second. would you say that our founders were libertarian, or were they republicans? >> i'd say they were libertarians. but i think right to life is something that needs to be protected. >> i think you can make a libertarian argument for, to be pro-life. but libertarianism has more con analysis stepsy intellectually than republican talking points of saying we're going to cut spending but then when you get in power there is no difference. >> glenn: you know what? i

joe simon and jack kirby, who created most of the tv heroes. stan lee got all the credit because he's a jerk. >> he has bad hair plugs. >> everyone who reads comics, knows this. >> he likes to wash his car in cutoffs. >> is that right? >> no. i just made that up. >> mike, hia couple of other questions for you on history. i'm up for it. >> who turned a doctor into captain america. >> dr. fenster? >> incorrect. >> you said it with such confidence! >> yeah, i believed you. >> it was abraham irskin and his code name was joseph rhinestein. >> that's right. it was. >> mike, you said, now captain america's your kids' favorite super hero because they have no choice. >> well, yeah. >> that goes against everything captain america stands for. >> captain america had kids as well. and he also didn't give them a freedom of choice. >> is that right? >> it's the universe that captain america lived in in 42-44, prior to the victory over the nazis and then he turned his wrath on capitalism. >> not a single word in those sentences was true, including "andand "the

bye, kirby. >> reporter: as she is processed out, archer gets to exchange her jewel uniform for the clotheess was arrested in moss earlier. >> do you have them? bye! >> you guys be good. the best feeling in the world. that's how i feel. i'm in here 10 months on the year. >> you want to go home? >> yes -- yes, sir. oh, i'm not home. 10354. >> thank you. >> reporter: archer arranged to stay with an old boyfriend while she gets on her feet i. just got out jut now. i'm on my way out there, okay? i'll call you when i get there. please, have your phone with you. all right. i'm call you in half an hour. >> i like my life very much now, and my freedom, too. think about, if you do drugs it's only going to last for a minute. you're going to get back to the dogs and have a habit. another case, down the infirmary looking like [ bleep ]. i have the power to change myself. i just got to stay away from all bad -- all bad things. >> reporter: espinoza expects to walk out of jail any day now, but his freedom is not guaranteed. authorities might still bring criminal charges against him for his role in the t

. >> paul kirby, final question. >> >> as we talk about spectrum allocations, is there a concern that the commerce department is looking right now at spectrum with a 1.7 gig hurts? how concerned are you that it will take too long to free that spectrum up? >> i think it's important to note that going forward, i don't think we'll ever find any green field spectrum, spectrum that is encumbered in some way. the way we look at it is if you can get the government focusing on a significant amount of spectrum, 500 megahertz is what they're focusing on, and you can get them focusing on some of it in the commercial space and some in the government space. and you can try to move each of those forward. you have the likelihood that you will have sort of a rolling out of spectrum over time. some of it sooner, some of it later. we certainly have pushed hard for our desire for 1755 to 1780 megahertz to be made available. i know that the n.t.i. is looking all the way up to 1850. we believe the focus at least initially should be on that initial swath, and everything should be done that can be done shor

rick kirby.ymond in the early years of this strip experimented with a lot of different techniques and alternating back and forth between very sort of delicate pen lines and very bold kind of brushstrokes. >> what are the most important strips of the last, say, 20 years? >> there are three strips that came up in the 1980s. it was "calvin and hobbes" by bill waterson, which in my mind is probably one of the b strips ever. there's another panel called "the far side" which some of you might remember by gary larson. just consistently hilarious on a daily basis. the third cartoon is "bloom county." which started as a "doonesbury" imitation. it took off in its own direction. >> is there an up and comer we should keep an eye out for? >> the cartoonist that all the other cartoonists are talking about is richard thompson who does a wonderful strip called "cul-de-sac"c"bout a little girl who goes to a preschool. >> i read somewhere that people under age 40 no longer read a newspaper regularly. what happens

our guest, chris guttman-mccabe of the wireless industry, matt wood of free press, and pall kirby. the report if you want to read the competition report of the fcc is hyperlinked at c-span.org/communicators. .. >>> today president obama said that he would continue to push congressional leaders for the largest possible deal on deficit and debt reduction and would not consider short-term resolution. both democrats and republicans are hoping to reach a compromise that would clear the way for congress to raise the nation's debt ceiling by august 2nd deadline to meet next a look at those remarks which runs 40 minutes. >> good morning everybody. i want to give a quick update on what's happening with the debt negotiations and provide my perspective and then take questions to read as all of you know, i met with congressional leaders yesterday. we are going to be meeting again today, and we are going to meet every single day until we get this resolved. the good news is all the leaders continue to believe rightly that it is not acceptable for us not to raise the debt ceiling and to allow the

. >> okay, peter, kirby writes, woke up early hoping peter alexander would take off his shirt since it's soshirt. it's so hot this morning. this got weird. >> what else you got? >> jeff writes had hip surgery yesterday and can't get out of my hospital bed to change the channel. >> we removed the remote controls in hospital beds around the country. "morning joe" is up next. >>> the fact is, you can't solve our problem unless you do what? cut cap and balance. it doesn't matter what the polls are. we have to fix our country. this is the only viable plan right now that will do that. i will pet you a porterhouse steak, if it lands on his desk, he will sign that puppy. >> we will take that bed. i will refrain from saying it. the president will veto such a bill if it arrives on his decembering. >> a live look at a very hot and steamy new york city. get ready for another hot one. it's friday, july 22nd. welcome to "morning joe." we'll get to bill karins about the heat wave in a moment. with us, we have political writer for the "huffington post," sam stine. we have the chairman and co-publisher o

chris guttman-mccabe of the wireless industry, matt wood of free press and paul kirby of "telecommunications reports." gentlemen, thank you. the report, if you're interest inside reading the 15th annual wireless competition report of if t fcc is hyperlinked a at our web site, c-span.org/communicators. .. >> ranking member barney frank >> i want to emphasize that nothing is agreed to until everything is agreed to. and the parties are still far apart on a wide range of issues. >> the debt limit is the legal limit on borrowing by the federal government, and since 1962 has been raced 74 times. the last time in february 2010. learn more and all the process of raising the debt ceiling on line with the c-span video library. search, which, -- watch, clip and shear. it's washington your weight. >> two committees held a joint hearing on the situation in somalia. some of the issues examined by members included famine, terrorism, piracy and government corruption. witnesses included several current and former state department officials including the principal deputy assistant secretary of state for afric