in east lansing as well but and but it's you know reagan stopped and foreseen that f.c.c. regulation in one thousand nine hundred seven and that's when all the networks went to infotainment do you do you think that that's a pivot point. well and i don't think it's really because reagan stopped and forcing that rule i think that a lot of things came together certainly beginning in the nineteen eighties intensified by later on by the digital culture and i'm not saying by the way that computers are a bad thing or television is a bad thing but we had a lot of things coming together and what's happened in the united states since the 1980's is people are spending much more of their time with canned entertainment the decline and i don't want to go on about this and do a jeremiad about it because so many people do it i'm sure on your program too people are reading less particularly who's reading less are our people roughly between the ages of fifteen and forty and as people read less it means that they turn to low cultural models more for their standard discourse and certainly on

wgn's judy wang has details from lansing. the autopsy is complete but the coroner wants to run more testing the boy was visiting his grandmother when he was found in a neighbor's pool it happen 630 last night in a home located on the 2500 block of 183rd street we have been unable to reach the owner of that home neighbors say that the family allows neighborhood children to use the pool provided an adult is present ... he climbed the fence with two other boys and men into the pool next door there were aged 10 and 11 years old when he did not surface the kids pounded on the owner store he pulled the child from the pool when the paramedics arrived he had been under water for several minutes and was not breathing ... he was pronounced dead one hour after arriving at the hospital ... >>i just had my grandchildren playing in a little pull i was frightened to leave them ... the thought is a terrible >>a few neighbors were thinking of their own grandchildren when they heard what happened ... the lake county coroner's office says they

of the campaign is very simple buy local buy american joining me now is the mayor of my hometown lansing michigan verge bernero great to have you with us thank you tom tell us about your buy local buy america campaign and mirrors for mayors mayors for america america dot com well i'm very excited about it i don't know if this is a new idea or really kind of getting back to basics it's kind of an old idea by local buy american i think this is what made this country great i think this is where we started buying from the local store trading with you know a local farmer and so on farm market the idea is to use u.s. taxpayer dollars use local dollars locally whenever and wherever possible and if you don't make it locally then go to another city in america first before you go to china or to another country overseas buy local buy american the power of patriotic purchasing and of course this also applies to individuals but from a mean from from a municipal standpoint like you mentioned we're struggling as a manufacturing town g.m. is going strong we're good we're glad of that and we still have w

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i just want christopher -- i asked the lord to show me christopher a little bit more and he's lansing that prayer -- answering that prayer. i don't want to take away his purpose. he came in peace and i want him to leave in peace. >> i love that life i just saw. >> well that vegle for christopher brown will leave in about an hour. the wake will be held tomorrow evening. now brown's mother told us she has respect for county authorities. the off duty officers cam to murder their child and whether or not they deem her as a criminal act. for their part the county said the investigation is still going on and may not have an answer for christopher's mother for a couple more weeks. today we spoke to county executive kevin kamenetz who had this to say. >> i have met extensively with police chief johnson as well as state's attorney scott shellen ber -- shellenberger. they will determine what the facts are and take whatever steps are appropriate. >> let me tell you, brian kuebler is on the story. he will continue to follow it has the investigation unfolds. we'll have more tonight on abc2 news at

he had his only way to get help for his son, to come knock on this door felt no one is lansing on the other side, i don't think there's a way his son lives. >> reporter: the city said truck 10 and two fire companies are on a tight budget but they say service will be maintained. they said medic calls continue to go up and less people would be around to respond. calls to the mayor were not returned. roosevelt leftwich, abc2 news. >>> more than 100 korean business owners met with the city health department. the city is promotion 128 liquor stores be shut down because of criminal activity. they hope to accomplish that by closing the zoning laws to get rid of stores. about 90% of the liquor stores in the city are owned by koreans and they say they're being unfairly targeted. our christian schaffer will have more at 11:00. >> the man who police say suffered phylicia barnes pleaded not guilty. michael johnson was ri rested after -- was arrested. >> reporter: the father of phylicia barnes didn't say much. the man who less say killed his daughter plead not guilty to the crime a judicial formal

lansing, michigan. hi to liz. you're on the air. >> caller: thanks for taking my call. i visited jamestown 30 years ago. and just from watching your program it looks like the development, the research has come much further along than what i had seen. but at the time it was in a small private tour company, and the tour guide at the time said that some of the settlers from jamestown, they were seeking people from eastern europe, specifically like poland, to come and work in glassworking or glassmaking and because of the forests in the area that would have allowed the settlers to build the fires they needed to work the sand to make it into glass. i'm of polish descent. and i've always wondered if that was true or not. is there anything to that from what the tour guide told me 30 years ago? >> yes, we mow from the historical documentation that both individuals from poland and from germany were brought to make glass and to make pitch and tar and soap ashes, which was a commodity very much in demand in england and expensive to produce because of the lack of forests. and we ha

it's all the more important to them because they live in lansing. and still have their u of m sticker on their car. but hey, it's a positive thing. it's helped to build, you know, an important academic institution of some distinction. so we have all these different things working together and you have so many worthy institutions that are worthy in one way or another or many ways that it's helpful. the french system, by contrast, probably produces more excellence. they had a period where all their presidents and prime ministers had gone to this one school. happened to walk by it one time, one of their installations in paris. they've got an efficient parking garage in the basement of this historic building in the left bank of paris. and these people are very confident they're going to run the country. you know, you get this -- >> they do. >> well, they do. they do. they run the biggest private firms, the government. they run it. centrally from paris. we do. and britain, you still have an awful lot concentration of oxford and cambridge. i mean, the cur

join in a special performance of "the vagina monologues" in lansing on the capitol steps. she'll be joined by the award-winning playwright and several female democratic lawmakers. lisa brown was giving an impassioned speech against a bill that could restrict abortion when was she shouted the word. take a listen. >> i have not asked you to adopt and adhere to my religious beliefs. why are you asking me to adopt yours? and finally, mr. speaker, i'm flattered that you're all so interested in my vagina, but no means no. >> michigan republicans said she wasn't punished for saying "vagina" but for violating decorum rules and acting unprofessionally. >>> i'll be back with more headlines at the top of the hour. sanjay gupta begins right now. >>> hey there, thanks for joining us. got a lot in store today. gymnast dominique moceanu -- remember her from the magnificent seven? she'll drop an olympic-sized bombshell. >>> plus, a sister giving her brother and sister-in-law the ultimate gift. a baby. they're called surrogate sisters, the good, the bad, the ugly in a few minutes. >>> firs

seventy three abortion was illegal nationwide i'm old enough to remember a girl in my high school in lansing michigan who in one thousand nine hundred sixty seven died of sepsis from an illegal abortion one day she was there week later she was debt her dad worked at oldsmobile and had health insurance but health insurance didn't cover abortions because they were illegal the richer girls at school had parents and their parents get them what was called the d.n.c. operation the hospital and pretty much everybody knew it was kind of an open secret that when a seventeen year old girl was getting a d.n.c. it was code for an early term abortion but this young woman's parents didn't have the money to pay for a hospital procedure that wasn't covered by insert insurance so she tried the coathanger method and died many people have to remember seventy three can tell you similar stories back in seventy three one hundred seventy three many many americans knew these stories for example supreme court justice lewis powell had a clerk actually was a messenger whose girlfriend died from a botched self administ

stimulate the thousands of struggling local economies across america dr verge were narrow there of lansing michigan about his patriotic plan that he hopes will spur economic growth from coast to coast. more news today violence has once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations rule the day. well back to the big picture i'm sorry coming up in this half hour since the final meltdown of two a financial meltdown of two thousand and seven communities across america have seen their local economies collapse it's going to take some new ideas and fresh thinking to get them back on track one mare from michigan as a new idea and he's bringing it to washington we'll talk with him about his plan for economic growth also chances are speed and red light cameras of popped up in your town or city over the last several years all these cameras should be used for to.

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to stimulate the thousands of struggling local economies across america diverge bernero there of lansing michigan about his patriotic plan that he hopes will spur economic growth from coast to coast. wealthy british style. sometimes. markets why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to kaiser report on our. seven thirty am in moscow these here are t. headlines the u.n. secretary general demands the syrian government immediately grant observers access to the town of homs banki moon calls on both sides to pull back i mean here's the country sliding into civil war there is violence flares again with sustained heavy shelling of the city of homes. first rattle election results said the president along party on the way to a bridge jordi in the french parliament with a decisive second round due sunday. russian police raid the homes of prominent opposition figures in connection with the clashes in the last month of protest rallies organizers have also been summoned for questioni

she's actually in lansing, michigan. sally, what's your question? good morning. >> good morning.oes it matter what you eat for breakfast as long as you eat? i ask because i've been known to eat cold pizza. >> i don't think you're alone. >> especially in college. it's a popular dish. >> the answer to that is yes and no. you clearly don't have to stick with standard breakfast fare like eggs and toast and cereal but ideally you do want your breakfast to be a combination of some fiber and protein. that's what's going to help to power you through the morning hours. if that pizza is thin crust and loaded with vegetables, go for it. if it's a pepper ronni slice, skip it. there's so many dinners that are leftover turkey chili, burgers, shrimp and broccoli stir fry. anything goes. if you have leftover dinner go for it, as long as it's healthy. >> what about cereal bars? >> as long as there's no more than 12 grams of sugar. that's the cutoff. if it has protein and fiber that's what's going to hold you. >> next is an e-mail, julian from new york. julie writes, i love a great cup of dark roa

these are some readings at griffith dyer, lansing. blue island had a quarter inch. cloudy as we join the day tomorrow and muggy. this cloud mass could erupt into some scattered storms tomorrow afternoon. this could be a representative message through the weekend clusters of storms. 30% to 40% coverage. if you get under them, they will dump on you because we have a lot of water evaporated in this atmosphere and a jet stream juxtapositioned with it to left and create the squeezing effect as the cool air is lifted. tonight, partly cloudy warm and muggy. there could be a new thunderstorm in the south and west suburbs toward morning in spots. 75-80 for the lows. tomorrow, hot and humid scattered thunderstorms 40% coverage. 95. 73 tomorrow night scattered thunderstorms possible. a sun and cloud mix. hot and humid. 95 with upper 80's at the beaches. again, some strong and gusty 40% coverage thunderstorms. this may be a record long streak. the longest streak of consecutive 90-degree days here is 11 at the official station 12 at midway. we could have 90's going through a wee

that means of getting the customer service desk, new furniture inside, outside there will be more lansingnd lighting. >> what you really want in a mall. >> good quality clothing, good prices, lots of options. >> it is still about the stores and this teenager and her mother were delighted to learn that nordstrom rack was moving in next spring. >> a lot of people will come just for that, absolutely. >> day in and day out we hear negative economic news to ask the general manager hear how the ways that information like the jobless numbers, with what he sees here, and he says that he is just paying attention to what is happening at a shopping mall. he said customer numbers are up and sales numbers are up so things are looking good. >> sun valley has been there more than 40 years, one of the first indoor malls in the bay area. >> built in the 1960's and that is part of its charm and part of its course. they need to update it. >> thank you. >> less than one week after wall street suffered its worst day of the year, the dow had its best day of the year. it surged 286 points, erasing the losses fr

in fact -- >> host: they were just free lansing. >> guest: essentially just going off on their own and thinking this would be a good idea for them to get credit inside the atf and doj. randy brewer signed off and approved multiple drafts of a letter signed by ronald white, i believe the deputy attorney general -- could i have the title wrong but working for the justice department. the letter said, flat out, these allegations we're gun walking into mexico are absolutely not true. senior level officials don't know anything about this. that letter was sent to congress in february of 2011. since then, that letter had to be withdrawn from the record because it was so full of falsehoods, which is something that rarely ever happens of these high level officials, who these wire tap applications show were signing off and seeing documentation, that they actually did know about these things, and every step of the way they've been saying, no one at a high level has been involved in this. and bat year ago, the former atf acting director, who has since also been transferred to another position, said

we'll go live to lansing, michigan, for a special edition of "the vagina monologues." >>> and mitt romney has no idea what a doughnut looks like. >> you could see one of the chocolate -- goodies find its way to us. >> and he's never been to a wawa. >> where do you get your hoagies here, at wawa's? >> we'll bring you mitt romney's latest out of touch moment. >>> it is the right thing to do. excuse me, sir. it's not time for questions, sir. not while i'm speaking. >> welcome back to "the ed show." but your e ctile dysfunction that could be a question of blood flow. ctile dysfunction cialis for daily use helps you be ready anytime the moment's right. you can be more confident in your ability to be ready. and the same cialis is the only daily ed tablet approved to treat ed and symptoms of bph, like needing to go frequently or urgently. tell your doctor about all your medical conditions and medications, and ask if your heart is healthy enough for sexual activity. do not take cialis if you take nitrates for chest pain, as this may cause an unsafe drop in blood pressure. do not drink alcohol in

punished after saying "vagina" in a speech will join a special performance of "the vagina monologues" in lansingjoined by the award-winning playwright and several other female democratic lawmakers. lisa brown was giving an impassioned speech against a billing that would restrict abortions when she shouted the word. >> i have not asked you to adopt and adhere to my religious beliefs. why are you asking me to adopt yours? finally, mr. speaker, i'm flattered that you're all so interested in my vagina, but no means no. >> michigan republicans said she wasn't punished for saying "vagina" but for violating house decorum rules and acting unprofessionally. >>> and the u.s. air force's unmanned space plane completed its mission. the plane which is 1/4 the sides of the space shuttle will -- size of the space shuttle had been in orbit for more than a year. >>> a primeville, oregon, man is in critical condition after being diagnosed with the plague. health officials say the man contracted the rare disease from an infected stray cat that has since died. that cat's body was sent to the centers for disease con

actors come together for the liberation of women, for women's rights, in front of 5,000 people in lansing> lisa brown, since 1996, we've come such a long way with this, that it is hard to remember that since eve's play premiered, talking about the vagina publicly, in any way, was kind of extraordinary, and there was a real, just kind of shock punch to the play, hearing actresses say these words, and it's easy, i think, for some of our audience tonight who are in their 30s or 20s to not be able to even comprehend what that world was like. but that world came back to us in michigan when you simply used that word and suddenly you were banned. suddenly, that world of, you can't say that word, was back. and that, for me, eve, i join you in the feeling that this is one of those really exciting performances tonight, where you're going up against the real banning of that word. >> yes, yeah. it was incredible. and to this day, i didn't say anything wrong, is the anatomically correct terminology for the female anatomy. i was speaking to a bill that was about abortion, so it was germane to the legis

. >>> more than 3,000 people showing up at the state capitol in lansing, michigan, there to hear a prizet, recite the vagina monologues after brown used the word vagina while debating. those republicans banned brown from speaking at the statehouse the very next day. >> we all have the right to free speech. you don't have to agree with me but you don't have to be disrespectful and especially because i'm a woman. >> playright author joined that demonstration. >>> adid as is responding to backlash over a controversial sneaker. look at this, it has shackles, saying it won't sell the shoe afterall and it has nothing to do with slavery. this was a facebook page for the round house. critical comments changed that. the shoe has been pulled as has the facebook page, adid as says the design is nothing more than the designer's outrageous and unique take on fashion and it has nothing to do with slavery. still, adidas apologized if people did find it offensive. >>> china is planning to build the tallest building in the world and planning to do it in just three months. not a joke. a chinese company ca

. >>> mayor from lansing michigan is launching a new coalition on capital hill today. the association called mayors for america, will lead a buy local buy american campaign. drive economic growth and job creation in cities all across the country. if mayors in the coalition can't find goods needed in their community, it will be a national purchasing network to find products and services offered by other participating communities. >>> the push to ban large sugary drinks from new york city eateries is moving forward. mayor bloomberg's proposal will be formerly submitted this morning the board is expected to hold a series of public hearings during a 90 day comment period ban on drinks over 16-ounces would apply to only sweetened options that contain more than 25 calories per 8-ounces. new yorkers are divided on this ban. >>> new report finds hospitals in the u.s., are noisy, anyone who stayed overnight, knows that beeping monitoring, pagers, and phones and even squeaky laundry carts can make it difficult to sleep. new research suggests hospitals need a prescription for qui

it -- lansing, michigan. caller: i would like to put this fairness thing to rest. am a democrat but i own my own business. your business that you taxes on, you pay all the regular taxes and all of the employee taxes and all the other stuff. you might make $30,000 or $100,000. if your business makes $250,000, 500,000, $1 million, it does not matter what you make. personally. you have to pay the 30% tax rate. how is that fair? millionaires might have to pay 30% on a million dollars, but they make $1 million. we do not make $1 million. the business makes a million dollars. how is that fair? host: tell us your thoughts on whether the bush era tax cut should be extended. caller: i think the bush era tax cuts should be extended. they should also go down to about 15% or 18%. how about that? a flat tax. these republicans that are talking about their taxes and fled texas, i am with them. -- fair taxes and flat taxes, i am with them. the democrats have been that the businessmen and businesswomen. host: this is brian from twitter -- host: new york city. you are next. michael.

somebody's head is exploding in lansing.lways wants to talk politics. i don't know why because we always end up in a deadlock on that. she was telling me that ann romney rides her dressage horses. i'm like that cannot possibly be. >> not in competition no. >> caller: no. she had been mistakenly -- it threw her for a loop. she says to me do you know what dressage is? and i said well, yeah, i know what dressage is. it is a rich man's sport. as the steam started to roll out of her ears, she said ann romney will be riding a dressage horse in the olympics. >> no, she is not! >> caller: do not believe that's true ma'am. >> stephanie: no, the horse is the athlete in the family. >> ann writes the checks. >> caller: she dishes out the hay feed. >> stephanie: thank you, lisa. >> she may ride them therapeutically on the off time but she does not ride them in competition. [ ♪ "world news tonight" ♪ ] >> stephanie: would you like some -- i have not heard -- did you hear about the lawsuit? the dressage horse lawsuit? >> there's problems i