lex i was shocked they did not catch it in the first place. people that work with children should be screened very well. >> the district made the revelation after butler inquired about whether it would heard chances for a promotion. this prompted a review of 19,000 records of employees hired before 1999 how when employee applications went online. butler was one of 17 employees who admitted to be convicted felons on the written application. >> a mistake was made. it was human error. the online applications immediately disqualify convicted felons. lex we regret what happened that have systems in place to prevent it from happening again. >> i can understand mistakes, these are serious crimes. >> we went to her home in vienna but nobody answered the door. parents say they are pleased that this trick is talking and taking action. >> i think it is good for them. what else can they do? >> we were able to confirm that alert was a teacher with the arlington county school district from 2000 to 2006 which is when she began working in fairfax. of the seve

lex that has been one of the key questions.re there synergies that they have, let's say between xbox, xbox live and microsoft search. could those be contractually guaranteed and what i achieve separate valuations? that's something that will be a question in the early days of the ceo. microsoft has just gone through a big reorganization. you've got to imagine she's going to sign on with what the board has with the company will stop imagine a microsoft -- like person, someone who knows who the people are and knows who the winners and losers are up there. >> thank you both, we appreciate it. bloomberg actually spoke to him last month and here's what he had to say in an exclusive interview. >> the microsoft board is working on the process. steve ballmer is the ceo and i'm actively engaged in running the enterprise engineering room. >> so you won't need him in a chief executive role question are >> i've said everything am going to say about it. >> coming up, we will talk politics when we got to the gop retreat, next. ? >> our chief

lex help me. i am at the heathrow.athrow, do tell me to keep the plane on the ground because they do not know if they can land at logan or philadelphia who -- or new york? >> probably yes. right now some of the flights are grounded in chicago where there is a lake effect winter storm warning. getting snow there as well. not just a few inches of snow. it is the wins that will be really strong and will create zero visibility. >> toronto would stay open. every runway. lex it happens. airports close when there is bad weather. -- >> it happens. of people trying to get somewhere because it is right after the holidays. this number will go up. bad is that compared to other storms we have seen causing flight cancellations? >> i think it is bad that it is already happening so early on, but you look at where we are on the calendar am i right after new year's a lot of people traveling. they are off until monday. the flight cancellations, this is all about the passengers bill of rights issue. claims do not want to have to wait to t

lex yes.ve to pressure cook to be a solution. >> this is the malt and barley that has been cooked. quite good. >> it taste like a beer. >> after fermentation, a goes to the storage tank. another seven or eight weeks. especially airing the world economic forum, there is a lot of champagne and wine that is --nk, but >> beer for breakfast, champagne for lunch and wine for dinner. lex exactly. >> you can watch our full coverage of dominoes. morrow, we will speak of -- speak with a member of bain capital partners. like thesedon't look in dominoes. the high price of storing data in the cloud, that's coming up next. then we will hear from the likes of bob mould and ben moshe a on how they got had. >> in company, it is all about the cloud. lenovo is in talks for a server business for price between $3.5 point $5nd four billion. they are looking to expand into storage equipment and servers. ibm sold its pc business to lenovo back in 2005. software giant sap has been moving into servers, but it is coming

lex that is the $64,000 question.longer-term and we had to be careful because on the short end of the rates curve, you might want to see rates fall back a bit if you get aggressive that action. >> why does it seem as if there is so little conviction in the equity markets right now? littleto remember, conviction but it's really just indigestion. we are long-term guys. when we look at this, we are only down four percent year to date, but that's in the reference of last year were stocks went up almost everyday. on in thes going markets right now? is it an overdue correction? >> it's not a correction yet. it has to hit 10% before we can say it's a real correction. >> jeremy, thank you so much. i'm mark crumpton. ♪ >> this is "taking stock" wednesday, january 29, 2014. we are focusing on sports and business. dan marino, long-time base of the miami dolphins franchise, talking about this upcoming weekend super bowls player safety and a second career after football. facebook, the social network, out with its earnings. sming u

lex a lot of people happy that black hairy sticking to its roots. been a pretty serious issue. a familiar scene in airports this week. long lines stranded passengers. one airline also blaming new highlight rules. adam johnson has more on jet blue. not only are they being hit by the storm, but singing the faa is disrupting them as well. >> jet blue being very aggressive about the impact. effectively saying the new highlight rules are taking a bad situation and making it worse. let me tell you what the actual change is in the rules. ofs is taking effect as saturday. a maximum of nine hours in the cockpit. minimum of 10 hours off before you can fly. a minimum of 30 hours uninterrupted breaks per week. is there any chance this goes back? >> it is really only jet blue saying there is a problem. southwest, difficult to characterize any specific delay. the united airlines have said most of the delays have been weather-related. >> why is that? where -- to fly to flight aware, it tells you where all of the delays are, but they have a map to show you where th

lex looked as a champion bull cost? >> it can range. , $50,000.e is 35 they could have half a million or million dollars. >> is that what your salary is? >> it depends on how good my year was. >> how good was your year? i one $1.8 million. >> how old is the bully you're up against? >> average between three and six or seven years old. usually when it gets six or seven, they start going a little bit. ortoday going to retirement not? >> if they are like bushwhacker, they go into retirement. >> do you have to go through any routine to prepare yourself for the injuries? sometimes you wear a helmet, you have some protective clothing. >> all i wear now is a fast. it is kind of like a kevlar vest. to spread the impact when the bull steps on you. you have 1600 pounds stepping on you, you will feel it. >> have you been seriously injured? >> oh, yes. 18, a bullne i was stepped on my stomach and broke all of my ribs, lacerated my river and spleen. put me in a hospital for a while. they said it would be eight months before i got on

lex what do you think?n some of the things that have been said here, what he needs to do going forward, what he needs to focus on is being able to grow the company across multiple dimensions. i agree he will be studying different aspects of the business, but i would take a little issue with the idea that there hasn't been excitement. steve ballmer has wrought a lot of excitement and a tremendous amount of passion to this company. now is therewe see needs to be an evolution and what has been so impressive about what he has done to date is he has brought developers harnessed the and developer network onto the service and tools product tommy's bringing those people to azure and making microsoft relevant in the cloud. that is the kind of fantastic excitement that is platform, it is developer base, it needs applications that differentiate microsoft in the future, but that is the kind of fundamental rethinking the company needs to do to be relevant going forward. multiplet across dimensions will be difficult to d

lex welcome to "money moves" were we focus on alternative assets. we show you what investors and entrepreneurs are doing as well as what's going on and hedge funds, private equity and more. pizza and private equity -- apollo global taking over chuck cheese. by the children's chain agreed to be bought. carlyle by a unit of johnson & johnson for more than $4 billion. we will tell you it's in it for both sides. the securities and exchange commission has a new warning to bond fund managers that has to do with structural issues that have crept into the market. we will tell you about the implications. we want to start with breaking news on new skin. sterns, ise, olivia there with everything you need to know on this story. >> shares in new skin are down and the stock has been halted in trading twice. comingllows allegations from a chinese newspaper saying new skin has been suspected of an illegal pyramid game. this is a company that makes nutritional and skin ruddock's and the government says they are investigating these allegations. tearkin has been on a

♪ lex live from pier three in san francisco, welcome to the late edition of bloomberg west where we coverhe technology and media companies that are reshaping our world. our focus is on innovation, technology, and the future of business. let's get straight to the rundown. to facebook users file a lawsuit against the social network saying it's scanning private messages to better target advertising. facebook calls the lawsuit without merit. expose the names and numbers of millions of snap chap users after a security form says it's warned him about von ability. will it be lights out for major nfl playoffs this weekend? aree games are in danger of blackout unless the stadium's sellout in time. first, to the lead -- facebook hit with a privacy lawsuit. two users complain facebook scanned some private user messages and then profits off the data by sharing it with advertisers. the plaintiffs are seeking class-action status and say it violates federal and california law. facebook says the allegations are without merit. facebook is not the first company to face these kinds of allegations. google an

lex police will not say how long the child was left alone. they say it was not for an emergency. she worked as a student teacher into local school districts. authorities tell us the 911 tape does exist but they're not releasing it at this time because it is primary evidence in the case. >> thank you. from now on a story that you will see only on seven. hours after the victim in a violent robbery told her story to abc 7 the suspect turned himself them. the victim says that she was hit in the head and her iphone was stolen near union station. a few days later the victim -- clout to her clause account and found this picture. he was one of the two who robbed the victim. he surrendered early this morning and admitted to the crime. >> we have sad news tonight from anthony williams. he tells us his mother, the first mother of the district, passed away as afternoon. she died after a brief illness. she served as a surrogate for the mayor at school events, ribbing covens -- ribbon cuttings. >> she was a force of nature. a brutal murder, the clerk attacked inside the store. there are questi

lex there was plenty to talk about. he conservatives and social democrats have been in the coalition government for less than a month and there are differences on policy that have to be resolved. >> cracking down on migrants from bulgaria and romania that no longer need work visas. the problem, they say, is being exaggerated. urkel turned to a coalition -- commission to make recommendations. >> i think that is the best way to handle this issue. we need to work with hard facts. >> they say those from the balkan states are well qualified and are needed by the german economy. >> as germany's business community, we want to stress the table areas and romanians are among the workers with lowest jobless rate and welfare dependency in the country. we are bad mouthing a part of the population that doesn't deserve it. >> it is likely to be the first of many disagreements. ask michael schumacher was not skiing at a reckless speed when he crashed 10 days ago. cracks based on video footage of the accident, schumacher remains in a me

lex he is as good as it gets. he sings in the same tradition as aaron neville.s back to the french creole thing in louisiana. influenced by french baroque opera. instead of singing really loud, they would go into falsetto and sing a lot of embellishments. tavis: that is why neville loves doo-wop. >> he is one of the best and last of the great doo-wop singers. smokey goes to falsetto and sings those little embellishments. is moret music -- he related to catholic music. but those like wilson pickett are going to belt that note. but those guys sang in the beautiful falsetto. tavis: i will come back to neville in just a second. i was going to ask you this question last night but there was so much to get to. you, i am i talk to struck by your depth of music history. you did not have time to go get a phd in musicology. nobody does these days. you know all of this stuff. how did you get versed in ? >> i am a reader. but i just went further and further and found out more about the lives of the people that sang it. whatever i was singing, i wanted to know what was going

lex now they are benefiting from our tax dollars. >> ireland is a major tax shelter for u.s.es. >> it brings this in another direction, which is whether or not we have the budget -- best tax policy. a secondealth care for . we probably are going to still be talking about it in the future. do you think we will get enough people enrolled to make economic sense? >> it does not look like they are on pace to hit the target. i am not sure where this thing is. i get a sense it will be with us for quite some time. ,> at the very least again there is the leadership question about the rollout. the president said the book -- stops with him. kathleen sebelius was questioned by a number of committees when it failed to rollout in october. at some point does this start to die down about the rollout and the conversation shifts to how iny people are enrolling? >> have not seen any real accountability except for the company that screwed this up in the first place. have some serious problems. >> the idea that 20 years from now everything will be fine and will have a good program in place i thin

lex is the fed trying to make a point here?o note that the activity that got him in trouble seems to have ended at about the and of 2012. associatesh his working on silk road who needed bitcoin to purchase illicit goods. caseould fairly make the that this is the unraveling of the last strands of silk road rather than some big new investigation, but nevertheless, it's not marked on the record. >> thank you for joining us and helping us break it all down. >> we are going to be talking about apple earnings. the numbers are next. don't go anywhere. ♪ >> we have some breaking news tied to tech and the nsa. let's get straight to peter cook. >> this is a follow-up to the president's speech in asking for changes to the government surveillance program. the justice department has reached an agreement with the number of tech companies to allow them to disclose more information on when they are forced to cooperate with the government and respond to court orders. they have been limited to what they could say publicly about the cooperation a

. >>> a major japanese lex tronicsmaker is ready to deliver a telecommunications satellite to turkey. mitsubishi became the first japanese firm to win a satellite contract from the country in 2011. a ceremony to commemorate the satellite delivery was held on wednesday, at a domestic mitsubishi plant. visiting turkish prime minister recep tayyip erdogan attended. it's one of the two satellites that mitsubishi was commissioned to build. >> translator: i hope the space development projects that we are promoting with japan will advance further. >> turkey aims to develop telecom satellites on its own by the year 2018. more than 10 engineers from turkey's state-run satellite firm are receiving training from japanese engineers. in the past, contracts for turkey's satellites have been awarded to france. >>> the foreign ministers of japan and spain say they want to strengthen economic ties between their two countries. fumio kushida and jose manuel garcia met during the first visit to spain and france. he encouraged more japanese countries to invest in france and spain. in october pledging incr

lex but we are also talking about yesterday.f things, we are still near record highs. will this destroy anyone's 401(k)? obviously not. >> don't you feel like we have this behind us now? [sighs] >> all right. we will see you monday. have a great weekend. ♪ >> it is 56 past the hour which means bloomberg television is "on the markets." i'm alix steel. a brutal day in the stock market today. that dow closing down over 300 points. the s&p was off by 38 points, below 1800. the low the 50 day moving average, the intermediate trendline they look at. the nasdaq the biggest loser, off by over two percent. it was a slow grind lower all day. , the largestk decline since june. it was an ugly day. was it a pullback or is it a correction? that is the question going forward. one of the stocks after the bell we are watching is walmart, laying off 2300 sam's club employees. that is two percent of its workforce. the biggest layoff for walmart since 2010. the goal is to reduce middle managers. talking about the brutal selloff we saw over the last

conclusions didn't add up parties lex haris takes a closer look at the mit study. reproduced the very same map which the which the washington officials presented when they voiced their concerns that the attack could have been carried out by the government troops look if you look here this is the part of damascus controlled by the government at the time which was of course the twenty first of august twenty third scene and this is the part of damascus controlled by the opposition troops so if we see we can see those blinking yellow sports those are the areas where the missiles carrying the sarin gas hit the ground causing some deadly damage and reportedly hundreds of casualties and this red line here is basically to signify how far could these rockets go if they were fired from the parts of damascus controlled by the government as we can see the closest the westernmost point of attack of the sarin missiles is some way off from the maximum range of missiles this particular type of missile which was used in this attack the maximum range of these missiles is about two k

lex chris -- >> chris brown was back in court today. there was extra security heading into court as he was affronted by attorneys and reporters. why he refused to enter a plea deal. >> i have been covering this courthouse for years. high profile cases included. i have never seen a day like today. chris brown is in trouble in california and on probation. it is no surprise he didn't accept today's plea deal. he waved as he walked and court amid a crowd of screaming fans, media. >> to have anything to say? >> and u.s. marshals to count. security presence outside the unprecedented. once inside the courtroom, courtroom -- cameras were not allowed. he is accused of assaulting a man outside of the w hotel last october. once underway, the prosecution told the judge the government offer brown and his bodyguard and opportunity to plead guilty to simple assault, and offer rejected. >> chris brown is not guilty. said they for brown were waiting on evidence from the government. the last of the evidence was a substantial amount of surveillance video

lex that is right. -- >> that is right. they have but together -- put together the biggest hedge funds. one a littleyou bit in the game. 84% last year. i will tell you about the man who manage the fund and a little bit of insight into his strategy coming up. >> thank you. just ahead, we look at the top trends in tech at the consumer electronics show in vegas. wearable technology. ♪ >> time for today's company news. nintendo surges as tiny list game console ban. they wanted to protect the youth from the corrupting influence of video games. talks -- gap urge talks over cambodia clashes. loreal will stop selling its products in china. says more than 100 employees will be affect his -- affected by the move. welcome back to "countdown." i am mark barton. of latest and greatest everything tech is on display in las vegas at the consumer electronic show. a number of topics is wearable technology should our next guest sees the potential for that. guest. me is my theable technology, that is big thing in technology in 2014. >> yes. th

lex i have been reflecting a lot on the first 10 years at facebook.ne of the things i remember from really early on, it is one of my friends that i used to do most of my computer science problems stuff with and now he works at facebook and runs a bunch of our engineering team. government rafter release in the first version of facebook, we had this conversation where it is awesome that there is this utility and community at our school but clearly some day someone is going to build this for the world and he did not occurred to me that he could be us. >> this is a gathering of engineers from a number of companies to share ideas about server performance. it saved facebook over $1.2 billion in infrastructure costs. well, the form just reopened after the million-dollar makeover from the madison square garden company. the goal is to lure the touring business from the downtown staples center. look at the new lightingnovative new and caught up with the executive chairman along the way. >> the form posted every big musical act you can think of. it is a battle f

lex what is the process of green lighting a show for hulu? months, weeks, faster than that? to months and try to make it as painless as possible. it is a negotiation of process. lots of financial parameters to define as well as the rules of the road. particularly when you do coproductions. you want to make sure everyone is clear on what the role is before you start so expectations are managed. >> when it comes to budgets and how much these shows may end up costing or what you are willing to put into a show, what is that process like? an unlimited budget or do you have to weigh the pros and cons? >> we have to think about the audience and how much you need to get great production value. a variety of factors that go into the equation. you think about this level of talent in writing and think about how much it will cost to do that right. what you just said and put it into the lineup of 2014, how does that compare? >> 2014 we spend more than ever, which is great. i think the coproducing and cofinancing partnerships are critical in raising the bar. it meant we could leverage the

lex i thought i had killed my mom. >> she called police. >> it being so cold, we knew time was the essence. spottedcharles was right away. >> it looks like somebody is sitting down. >> it is always a great feeling. there are a few chances were you feel like you make a difference. she likely would not have survived much longer. >> there is a god. she is alive. >> the great news is that mrs. charles is doing well. she was certainly not dressed to be out in the cold. she was wearing warm clothing. her daughter says she got a good nights sleep and now she is doing just fine. >> thank you. a great ending their. ledng up, how this selfie to an arrest. say they could happen to anyone. it is freezing. grandfather's warning about what happened to him. to call inrget >> you are watching abc 7 news at 5:00 on your side. brazen ndc.es get >> they still a man's car as he was cleaning the snow off of it. tonight, the man is sharing what happened with jennifer donelan. the interview will only see here on seven. >> talk about taking advantage. that is going to continue for several days. we have snow, ice

lex never? grandmother would be watching this thinking, 3-d printed?hinese business leaders unwilling to trade with japan amid soaring regional tension in the east china sea. 60% of chinese corporate leaders unwilling to do business with japanese firms. you can print as much as you like, you will not solve this issue and it is a big problem. >> we saw it in the most recent trade numbers. >> it has been in evidence. you have seen declining trays between the two countries. you were there, you wanted to trade from china, an economy growing at 7.5%. you're not seeing any advancement at the moment. >> friday is the day when all the newspapers roll out the reviews of the films coming out this this weekend and i keep my eye on them. when a film critic says this, it catches your, doesn't it? a masterpiece and a milestone. that is the film, "12 years a slave" which is a brilliant and brutal account. the golden globes take place on sunday. steve mcqueen is up for best director. he directed shane. .> he looked for a script it was the most incredible book she had

. >> i did not have $4 million to lose all stop lex he negotiated a discount, 20% rebate on all his lossessecured those discounts, he turned his attention to the rules of the game. >> walk me through the rules they gave you that were advantageous. >> when standing on soft seven, if the dealer gets an 86, the dealer has to stand on hand instead of taking another card. doubling on any two cards. some places have rules that will not allow you to do that. splitting hands up to four hands >> even with his rules, the 20% discount and the big bats, the house still had a tiny advantage. >> there was a house built in. >> not satisfied, he figured out how to tip the game in his favor. >> if you can beat the dealer, you can beat house. >> there are not enough players that will deal $100,000 per hand. >> and you encourage them -- do you encourage them or distract them? >> are all kinds of distractions for dealers. i had stars or five or six or seven girls that would pose as a girlfriend to distract the dealers. but does it work? like there's always a circus going on. the more it looks like one giant p

about that,lexed too. there are a ton of potential candidates that could be competitive for this job. we are aware of some of the concerns about two of the prior ceo's still staying on the board. i have lived through that myself. allen has lived through it. that is probably why he was in contentious -- in contention with bill ford staying on will stop a lot of people think that keeping bill ford -- in contention with bill ford staying on. a lot of people think that keeping bill ford on was a bad idea. there was one specific style of management and home depot. he had trouble there. he is a car guy. could he have gone to a software company? >> i take exception with that we had trouble. we doubled sales. we almost tripled income. question is, does management ability apply to every company, or do you need the background? >> if you look at for today, they are benefiting through multiple expansion on some of the fundamentals we put in place. take chrysler. we were there with cerberus, the team. took $5 billion o

lex i personally think he is a traitor.aled information that is detrimental to the security of america and its citizens. jetn't think you can count any other way. >> one of the things he has alleged is that the nsa and other organizations use backdoors to get access to information from companies that are not voluntarily provided. what if he is right? did you ever see anything like governmentpect the was taking things from at&t they did not have the right to? >> i really can't comment on things that are classified. lawyers have advised you not to discuss? >> yes. and my lawyers are paid by me, not by at&t. i believe our right to privacy is protected by the courts and and theseonstructed are very experienced people. they look at the issues one by one and make decisions. we are in a different age today. surveillance in the cold war, having submarines chase each other around in the ocean is quite a different than dealing with shadowy enemies who seek to do great damage. let's face it -- the homeland of the u.s. is the number on

. >> host: joining you are conversation is ad lex byers, technology reporter for politico, he also puts out the morning tech newsletter. mr. byers. >> gary, let's start with innovation, that's been one of the core issues for you this year, and yet things have been pretty stalled in the house, obviously. a comprehensive bill passed the senate a couple months ago is it time for the tech industry and perhaps democrats by extension to support more of a piecemeal approach to passing the immigration bill, especially because one of the bills that, you know, may have some legs in the house is the act that is very, you know, would look at raising the number of h-1b visas or green cards that some of your members might be able to out to use? >> guest: well, thanks, alex, and you've done a great job covering the issue. as you know, the tech industry and, indeed, democrats and republicans are united that we should get the best and the brightest people to the u.s., we should want them at the universities, we should hire the ph.d.s and masters in s.t.e.m., so we have a decision that we want this, it's

lex welcome to "money moves" were we focus on alternative assets. what investors and entrepreneurs are doing as well as what's going on and hedge funds, private equity and more. pizza and private equity -- apollo global taking over chuck cheese. by the children's chain agreed to be bought. carlyle by a unit of johnson & johnson for more than $4 billion. we will tell you it's in

lex before. >> if the testing says you will not make it, you will not make it in. -- hey have an unbelievablef they are determined they might. that is that x factor. that is the need thing about the team. you have a guy that went to oxford as a rhodes scholar. next to a coal miner. all those personalities and backgrounds can work for you or they can. think you miss judge? >> early on you think you can , or testphysical gifts scores. once they get thrown into the crucible that is seal training, which lasted long time into hell week. it starts on a sunday night on the fifth week of training. it starts on sunday night. it ends on friday afternoon. you get two hours of sleep. you are wet and cold and miserable grade running with a boat on your head. lying down in the surf. >> two hours of sleep for five days? >> it puts you into another world. by thursday, people start hallucinating. >> sleep deprivation. offert we want to do is up multiple and intense opportunities to find out if everyone has that quitting gene. if you don't, if you somebody that we throw all that adds, we know we have a special

enclude all of the embarrassing stuff in the 40 page indictment that i looked through such as a ro lex watch and vacation stays and lot of. >> seriously, what is the cut off? he didn't host the parties and no sort of pay back. what kind of gifts can you accept from a friend. is there a dollar limit. >> you are making a good point. if you accept lavic gifts it could violate the rowels. let me jump ahead. the two counts that tom and i discussed briefly where he was not honest on loan applications and the percentage is not that high. he had debts in one instance of 1.2 million and doesn't list that he owed 50,000 to a person who gave a gift and he did it again, omitting 120,000. and you can say it is a weak case all day long. but the exgovernor is in harm's way. >> do you think it is a weak case and to prove it is a quid pro quo. and we did that for them. >> this is how i will handle the question. yes, the prosecution is a stretch and many respects it is it a weak case. that being said, the power of federal prosecutors to exert their will is something that is not lost on me and not on dou

lex manus cranny with the latest on the markets. our next guest favors developed market equities in the u.s. and japan. for more, let's welcome the head of the london investment office at julian's. i want to get your take on the emerging markets. we had an interview with the indian central bank governor and he says there is a danger of central bank down -- central breakdown. >> there is a danger of some breakdown. what you have seen in the last two weeks has been quite a while in the making. bit of a catalyst to get investors to focus on the issues. a central banker points at something structural tells you that this is not something that is going to go away in another week or two. >> just a month ago, when you and asked what is your main concern, they said emerging markets, it is going to be bumpy, but it will go ahead. are there investment opportunities in some countries? >> one has to be careful. you look at vulnerabilities and avoid those. >> good countries and currencies. >> the ones with weaker currencies tend to have the worst

i'd like to start you on a new drug called she lex saw, dr. light continued. it's a powerful drug that we use to treat both depression and anxiety. unfortunately, it usually takes four to six weeks to start working. four to six weeks? i slumped back against the couch. there are some potential side effects, dr. light continued, and then she began to list them; dry mouth, headaches, decreased sexual desire, night sweats, anxiety -- anxiety? did she really just say that? it was like telling a drowning person to take one more big gulp of water. my eyes filled with tears again. dr. light, i don't know if i can do this. if i get any more anxious, i'll spontaneously come bust. >> we can start you on a very low dose, she said, ignoring my hyperbole. apparently, i was not her craziest patient. you can work up to the full, therapeutic dose slowly. that will minimize the side effects, but you won't get the benefits until you reach the full, therapeutic dose. each time she said the words full, therapeutic dose, she slowed down and enunciated each word with reverence which

scenario whereby internet browsing is one tier and facebook and twitter is another and then you have net lexyoutube and others. this could have major implications for everyone. >> yes, i think it could. we talk about the battle with the biggest players. about thethe point smaller players. a company like netflix could rob oblique afford to pay a little bit more whether they are forcing the consumer to pay more or paying whoever is providing the broadband a little bit more. argument that the the names you mentioned, whether it is facebook or netflix or youtube, they will become more powerful because of their pricing advantage because they got the skill earlier than anyone else. at the end of the day, it will be positioned that the consumer should not have to necessarily pay more because they are watching a lot. this comes down to how much you are actually gobbling up. how much broadband are you using? nielsen says we watched eight hours of television per day. diehards are watching a lot but they are not watching that amount. -- companieslogy like netflix think about going tohd, but they think

december, experience the gift of exacting precision and some of the best offers of the year at the lexember to remembesales event. this is the pursui of perfection. her long day of pick ups and drop offs begins with arthritis pain... and a choice. take up to 6 tylenol in a day or just 2 aleve for all day relief. all aboard. ♪ >>> welcome back to this special edition of "hannity" as we continue to countdown. we now look at the top five big losers of the year. here they are. >> these allegations are ridiculous. >> i didn't use crack cocaine nor am i an addict of crack cocaine. >> yes, i have smoked crack cocaine. >> when, sir? >> do i? am i an addict? no. have i tried it -- >> when did you -- >> probably in a drunken stupor. >> i said other texts and photos were likely to come out and they have. >> you're my judge? >> i didn't do what you did. >> what rabbi said you're my judge? >> is anyone truly qualified for a dose of discipline then she would be the outstanding candidate. i want to take this opportunity to say i'm sorry to mrs. palin. >> you want to apologize to her on camera? i aske

lex i thank the gentleman for his statement. we solve the blimp problem earlier this year when we passed helium legislation on a bipartisan basis. i just want to make that point, there is progress here. i want to welcome our witness today. we have mr. robert knox, the forstant inspector general the office of inspector general within the u.s. department of interior. thank you very much for being here. how that timing light works. your full statement will be included in the record. could keep your remarks within the five minutes -- the way that works is you are doing very well and when it comes on, you have a minute to go. you the red light comes on, are supposed to stop, but you can finish your topic and keep that oral remarks in your timeframe. >> good morning. chairman hastings, ranking member difazio and ranking members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to testify about the office of inspector general investigation into allegations the office of surface mining pressured contractors working on an environmental imp

december, experience the gift of exacting precision and some of the best offers of the year at the lexecember to remembesales event. of perfection. >>> dave martin died after collapsing last night during a college football championship game in atlanta after martin ran on to the field when texas a and m beat duke. here is the last picture he took. it's of players dunking a texas head coach. doctors say he died at a nearby hospital from an apparent heart attack. >>> meanwhile there is no doubt terror played a role in two deadly explosions which happened in the country set to host the winter olympics just weeks from now. russian president putin vowing to annihilate terrorists after bombers hit a controlly bus and a train station in volgograd. the attacks killed 34 people. and now the u.s. state department urging athletes traveling to russia to be on alert. so how vulnerable are the olympic games? joining me now, captain chuck nash and fox news military analyst. good to see you. >> nice to be with you. happy new year. >> so of course putin has to protect the people. keep the winter games s

lex good afternoon. we represent the silent no more awareness campaign.women who experienced abortion and are sharing the truth of how it changed us at the supreme court this afternoon. i never thought i would be pregnant as a teenager. we thought we were in love. i was a student athlete with a bright college future and the baby would really i liked. i was afraid to tell anyone. i felt trapped and sought no other choice. at the clinic the staff did not provide options or complications that would result. i vividly remember the sound. they took my money, baby and self respect. the denial sat in immediately. i was relieved and depressed. he never discussed that day again or the abortion. i thought life would return to normal, but i was never the same. the relationship ended in the suicidal thoughts began. i felt damaged, -- damage, unlovable, and so alone. i live with shame, guilt and feeling inadequate. i had failed relationships and became a workaholic. god did not define me by my past sin. i found forgiveness and hope in healing through jesus christ. prai

mid-term a lexes, popularity sinking, not coming back.the only case of emergency brakes they have left. >> why is it -- you experienced this first hand, support for this president, and it's 95, 96%, election in, election out. why? >> i got to tell you, a lot of that i blame on republicans. when i talk to conservatives and they tell me they don't want to pander, i say what the hell you many? you're selling a message. by the way, if this is a great message for everyone, put it out there. you're not pandering. so you have given away this vote and not put up a legitimate challenge at all. your don't put it up every four years by visiting the naacp convention. that's not really credible, you know? so it's a message that has been put forth by the mainstream media, through mythical lore. >> ever get to parthard for your personally? >> a one of my biddies came to my house. if you listen to our conversation and you didn't know color you would think they were install the tea party. all the things they're bitching about. the job situation, growth si

lex you. >> steve phillips talks about race, politics. our firstage of ladies series in one hour. conversation on the health care law and health care costs. on the next "washington journal," melanie sloan discusses the consequences of the supremes -- of the supreme court's decision on the fourth anniversary of the decision. the heritage foundation talks about ongoing efforts in the house to update voting -- update voting rights and relation. your comments by phone, twitter, and facebook. it is live at 70 m eastern on c-span. >> steve phillips who cofounded a number of critical committees that support democratic candidates. month inearlier this cleveland. >> good afternoon and welcome. my name is paul harrison, i am president of the city club board of directors. steveleased to introduce phillips, president and one of the first 50 founders. of power pac. it is a political organization established in 2004 to champion democracy and social justice in states and communities across the country. pacs i wantment on, to say a few words on his background. he grew up in cleveland heights so h

lex the election officials will read and take to heart and implement and where necessary some of these things may involve legislative change. i was wondering if there may be any outreach to county legislators for the implementation of some of these recommendations and what form that outreach would take. >> in general, everyone on the commission, we want to become evangelists for this project. we did go meet. that is our goal going forward. to go to the same group's that are decision-makers. we would love to be on the agenda to talk about that. on the respective states, we want to engage local legislative leaders. >> we have an education. we certainly would welcome all of the commissioners around the issues the a have mentioned. like for example the availability of polling places and the roles that schools plate. very controversial in some respects but it needs to be thought through. >> we will be visiting next month with the national association of secretaries of state and state election directors when they have their washington meetings. that is another example of that. i thought peop

. >> and here's producer lex spending time with mom back in the day, and our producer, ashley, celebratingcupy copy editor used to work at mtv news, and he's working with peter gabriel. we hit a nerve, to pleat or not to pleat. andrea tweeted, pleats should be illegal. >> for the love of all that is right and good in this world, no pleat. >> shay posting, along ago accepted my husband's color blind fashion nonsense. lol. enough it's time to head over to shepard. >> we're about to hear from the little league coach who is suing one of his teenage players after he said the kid through -- threw a helmet and sent him to the hospital. the guy's lawyer is asking half a million from the player's family, and coach says he is getting hate male about all of this. >> he says you have not heard the whole story yet. he'll explain it to us live right here. but first... >> breaking news. >> breaking news out of southern california, just past the noon hour, fast-moving wildfire has destroyed two homes and threatening many others. glendora is where this is

>>> game over for a-rod, after a history-making suspension for yankees super star al lex rodrigu rodriguez, what's the next move? can he make a comeback? >> unholy act? prosecutors show how a baptist pastor brutally murdered his wife. his lawyer this morning. >> saviors in the sky, hero nurses springing into action to save a pilot having a medical emergency in the cockpit. what happened after a white knuckle landing? >>> hey, good morning. and pope francis making news once again, overnight, baptizing 32 infants in the sistine chapel. a lot of happy parents looking on. two of the children named francesca. >> what a fitting name. >>> we're in the midst of a big spike in the flu. the number one myth of the flu, it's one we share and could put us at great risk. >>> right to the severe weather, dangerous flooding following the arctic blast. gio benitez has the story. >> it seems we have every kind of winter weather, it's causing a mess. look at the verizon center. a leak during the washington wizards game against the houston rockets causing an hour's worth of delays. it's a wet weekend everywhe

would have house republicans have planned later this week lex be house later that putting two votes on the floor related to the health law. one of these bills would require the department of health and human services to notify individuals within two days if they have been subject to a security breach if their information is somehow been tapped into or stolen or unlawfully accessed through the exchanges on line through healthcare.gov. another legislation to be voted on at the end of the week would require the administration to submit detailed weekly reports with the breakdown state-by-state of the enrollment and exchanges on healthcare.gov and all interactions with the web site. basically they are two bills targeting the web site, meant to shed light on the area's of the rollout of the affordable care act that aren't working as well as the administration a plan. >> host: in terms of the strategy on the aca how does it differ from their efforts during the first session of the 113th and a a lot of parts of the 112? what's different about it in 2013 for house republicans leaders? >> guest:

these platinum miners are demanding that entry lex paid be doubled to $1,250 a month. men and women are protesting together but when underground together, many women complain about discrimination saying sexual harassment is so chop, it's a part of the mining culture. >> they start saying for me to appoint you and she supervisor, we can have a deal. the deal is that you give that particular person, meet in the hotels, whatever, and you start some things like being in love, dating each other. that's where they can give you an appointment. >> only about one in 10 miners is a woman. they are isolated and vulnerable underground, but most don't report sexual discontinual that is, assault or rape because they don't think they'll be taken seriously. >> this set celebrates the miners, but much happened under apartheid through cheap labor. there's still the perception that mine owner care more about profits than safety, not only from accidents, but from each other. >> in 2012, this woman was raped and killed in a mine. despite her high profile case, nothing has changed. a task t

december, experience the gift of exacting precision and some of the best offers of the year at the lexs is the pursui of perfection. >>> welcome back to this special edition of "hannity." this year was a memorable one for this program. we shared laughs and we may have even earned some minor disagreements here and there. we always tried to leave on a positive note. here are the top five moments of 2013. >> did you follow this health care thing? >> it's a disaster. >> i know. >> but i have figured a lot of it out. >> yeah? >> i figured out the bronze plan. it's what color your finger will look like after you give yourself a prostate exam. >> is it immoral to put -- >> you are immoral. >> i am? what did i do? i didn't do anything. >> you say things that aren't true. >> give me an example, sir. >> to try to say that the it is the president's fault and he's to blame is wrong. it is a lie. >> it's not his fault we have $16 trillion in debt. >> no. >> we didn't had $6 trillion to the debt since he's been president? we did. >> what about the other ten? >> congressman you are a total waste of t

was curious what happens if you're an individual worker into about violations and confront your ask lex i imagine there is fear of consequences because they might say well we will hire someone who will do it creates be absolutely so that is why we don't recommend doing it alone. we recommend joining an organization like roc to join together with co-workers who can say these things. you're not protected on your own. you are protected when you get together with other lands say enough is enough sewing courage it go to roc united web site and be a member and we will support you. we created a web site called living off tips.com where anyone who has lived off the industry can share your stories of what it's like to live off of tips. celebrities are sharing their stories on the web site of their experiences living off of tips and anyone can so we invite and encourage the stories like we have heard today. thank you so much. [applause] [inaudible conversations] so we are each year to talk about it look and that ink in many respects, our books are radically different from one another. you can buy

so we bring these people and, naturally what do you think lex we will bring like some of the worst cases, and there were cases, for example, somebody got detained at the border and then thrown into jail for a night over a stolen identity. really sad stuff. and so people are telling their stories, but, unfortunately, it backfired on me. i'm sitting to his left and he keeps saying i thought you were taking care of this. what are you doing over there? so i walked out of the white house that day like -- anyway. whoever asked the question, it's a great question. >> so, thank you so much. a terrific conversation. i really appreciate it. >> thank you. [applause] >> coming up on c-span2, a review of the top issues in the british parliament. the event was assembled by bbc's version of c-span. then, conversation with the cofounder of global voices online. we will be live with charlie cook. is going to give his thoughts on the 2014 congressional races. >> i've been involved in politics for 40 years in one way or another. i've worked on reagan 76 and 80 campaigns. i worked in music ministry for eigh

spilled in the elk river from a storage tank at freedom industries, prompting a state of emergency lex declaration. the problem is also impacting hundreds of businesses from restaurants to salons, many are being forced to shutdown. >> we have no idea when we'll get a report that the water is safe enough to use. >> reporter: steve blake seu hair dress never do you understand charleston. >> my clients come in they want their hair shampooed or it's necessary to shampoo or without fore certain chemical services that we perform. put that we cannot work. >> reporter: charleston medical center is using two giants tankers to get clean water. the hospital says it's enough to last a few days. for now, all nonemergency surgeries have been put on hold. hospitals report only a small number of patients have come in complaining of symptoms related to the chemical spill. they include their, their, a vg and diarrhea they are testing and plush flushing out the system each other. the president of chemical company says they are declining but don't have a broad enough sample of the water to say that it's s