it was a tilling moment to be able to bring lau ling and euna l back to their families in america. we hadn extensive mee with kim jong il and wehad dinner with kim jong il. >> rose: what did you learn from that >> we were the as private citizens. i would say a couple things. one is that h condued those meetings in very raightforward manner. he was clearly... ihink 's shown the effects of having h a stroke. m not a doctor, but fro what i could tell he's having h a stroke. he's still in charge, in command anhe was strghtforward in the discussions. and... but we were the as private citize. we briefed the whitehouse...-e s actuly... was, again, traveling, so i wasn' with the president en he talked to president obama but i've had a chan to ef broofly talk to the president out it and i've talked to the ople in the administtion and in the white house about my observations and i think theresident has shared his insightsith him. and, y know, beyond tha i think it's up to the gernment take the next steps d ambassador bosworth is over in japan and the republic of korea and inchina coordinatin

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whose who of maryland law enforcement gathered in annapolis, argued for changes in the state's gang laus. >> right now, what the law does it s takes away what gangs commit. >> things like graffiti, assault, gambling, all not covered under the law. prosecutors say that make its too hard to prove someone is a gang member and punishment must be tougher. >> reporter: prosecutors say they hope to have several amendments to the prosecution act hammered out by november. we're live, federal hill, derek valcourt, eyewitness news. >>> we're following breaking news for you right now. sky eye chopper 13 is live over a school bus accident in south baltimore. mike perry has more. mike, what happened? >> reporter: we are at water view avenue and cherry hill in south baltimore, where apparently a vehicle towing a trailer has rear-ended a school bus that we are told has elementary school aged children on board. now, it is not clear at this point how many or if any are seriously injured. but the accident itself from the outside appears to be minor. they do have the baltimore city medic crew on scene that

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charged with fell hawaii hit-and-run and driving under the e.flncue >>> we've got a traffic foncall lau night drivers ghin virginia. that will be closed this evening at interstate 66 at about , 309: crews will lift steal beams -- steel beams into place rrngyi that over the beltway and the ng u'w hot lanes. wll a wtodd about 10 minutes to uryototravel time. ovgh two weeks. me> tomorrow night at mo gontry county, they llgo beve mod to n h geanout there oufor them. that's which thellwi take two weeks for the entire project to be done next fall. >>> heavy rain coming our way. topper with the forecast first. how's it going? >> right now just cloudy. if you're going out tonight, i would grab an umbrella. here's your forecast first. for tonight, breeze skpáeu windy at -- breezy and windy at times. low temperatures mid-50s in the suburbs, mid-aks midowntowno y rtherlteat abt rl10 to g inep tuson heaveragw aneping us on the coolke ol. s ugrothh wnto sind ado through wnen ev 60ou t even 60 here in annapolis. satellite picture radar combined seeing the fag,moisture fainlll the low northeaster, beg

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you can see the lau clouds over the potomac river. still an hour away from sunrise. a muggy 71 at reagan national. no precipitation here. however, we do have one shower just to the west of charlottesville. it's just now drifting near waynesboro, heading towards stanton. that may drift up towards harrisonrg later. no precipitation around. temperatures are certainly muggy. weather watchers are reporting mid 70s in the northern neck and near the bay. montgomery, fairfax as well as arlington in the upper 60s. it's 71 in washington. mid 60s around the shenandoah valley and around the blue ridge. the eastern ore, low 70s now. certainly muggy there. out of the mountains a bit drier and much cooler, only in the mid 50s. many locations in west virginia and western maryland this morning. showers beginning to move up into the carolinas. the wide view across the nation if you're traveling today, could have flight delays, more heavy rain possible, new orleans perhaps over to houston and unfortunately more rain for georgia and up through perhaps kentucky and western carolinas as w

lau why don't we start with -- why don't we start with a couple questions from the floor? you go first. >> please make it easy questions. >> please identify yourself as well. >> i never really easy question. in the introduction to be unseen hand in u.s./vietnam's relations, which is china -- i want to ask you to what extent do you see china playing our role in the u.s. and vietnam, looking for ways to improve the bilateral relationship? secondly, on a commercial question related to that -- u.s. companies say they are sometimes under little pressure from china because -- if they are looking to explore offshore in the so-called disputed areas, as you call it the eastern sea, do you see the pressure from china on companies being a factor in the levels to which u.s. oil and gas companies are able to or interested in investing? thank you. >> this is not an easy question. [laughter] you talk about what china is going to do and how they look at u.s. international relations. i do not want to interfere with their country here. we live next to china. thousands of years. it is good t

specific ad targeting technologies that allow them to dove tail with the recent ad exchange they just lauaunched. >> and you could see them going to eastern europe. >> that's correct. yondex did about $300 million in revenue last year, grew 80%. that could be very interesting for them. the market leader in the czech republic is also very interesting for them. a companied known by the name of sezman. less likely are neighbor and the market leader in china. google is quite focussed in china in building the google site there specifically. >> their stock just hit 500 bucks again for the first time since august '08. will they be more likely to use stock or cash? >> i think it depends on the company and the deal. the bigger companies they will probably use some stock. it's very interesting, we're seeing a turn in the business from a fundamental perspective that suggest estimates too are too low. they might use stock very similar to what they did with youtube. >> in video search, could you see possibly everyzing and viewclip, a mobile search platform and in the ad oriented category, ad bright an

here is he speaking with matt lau lauer. >> he is a good man.t him to do that. i believe that if he thinks he has a reasonable chance to win he will probably one. if he thinks his chances are 1 in 10 or worse, i think he probably won't. >> what is so funny? >> nothing. nothing. >> how great is he? >> he is a good man. >> no, former president clinton. how good is he? >> i think he is good at what he does. i don't know if that makes him a good man. >> here is the president in new york on david letterman last night talking about unemployment. roll the tape, chris. >> it took us years to get us into the hole we are in. we took a bad hit and lost $5 trillion worth of wealth because of the crisis. unemployment is still going to be a big problem for at least another year, and if we are steady and we stay the course and do what we need to do then i am confident over time we will come back stronger than before. >> stronger than before would suggest that we are going to spend as much money as we did before, and we are not. >> yeah, we definitely are not.

and patrick were talking to matt lau lauer.hat they read it, it is really him that is coming through in it. >> thank you, andrea. coming up next, business before the bell with cnbc's erin burnett, as we reflect on one year ago this week, the beginning of the collapse of lehman brothers and aig and the rest. and we'll go back to joe and mika at the reagan library in simi valley, california. you are watching "morning joe," brewed by starbucks. i'm racing cross country in this small sidecar, but i've still got room for the internet. with my new netbook from at&t. with its built-in 3g network, it's fast and small, so it goes places other laptops can't. i'm bill kurtis, and i've got plenty of room for the internet. and the nation's fastest 3g network. gun it, mick. (announcer) sign up today and get a netbook for $199.99 after mail-in rebate. with built-in access to the nation's fastest 3g network. only from at&t. without my makeup. now, it's no problem. (announcer) neutrogena tone correcting night serum with high performance soy to

he would tell jokes and lau.and his caring for each person in that room -- these were the w freshman -- was genera genuin. he did it regularly. these were freshman members of the senate. ted didn't really need them. he could get whatever he had to get done and they would support him. but he just cared about them. as if they were almost family. and thenhenever we had a late night we would sort of gather and i would be the emissary and go to ted and say, can weo upstairs? of course. and amy klochar and sherrod brown and bobasey, their faces would lloyd up and up we would go to hear more stories about the past, the sate, and the indivials, a memory none of us will ever forget. and ted kennedy would size people up early on and care about them. he was very kind to me but he also knew that i was the kind of guy he had to put in his place. i would get hazed by tedennedy and jay rockefeller went through the same thng. he knew who i was but he deliberately would not mention my name. we would be standing together and he wo