it goes to the oro of london during that time. anything went in london. it was incredibly exciting, vibrant city. probably the most exciting city in the war during the war in the world. it wasn't just them. it was going on all over the fore. f torrow you may die. most did not die but they looked for the dead. pamela churchill actually after ine war's came out with a quote ehat i love especially at the beginning of the book. she was talking to one of her biographies and said it was a terrible war. ad was spectacular. for many people who have serious important jobs, this other life they have outside the deadly serious work, incredibly emotion charged time and place. >> they turned up the hrsonification of france behind it. charles they gaulle infuriated his allies but with the series on the german boots, how did dosevelt and churchill's sentiments play out as they prodded to be back germany? >> there was an enormous amount of friction between churchill and roosevelt. gaul was the only french leader and he was very minor army figure, even the medium importan

it goes to the aura of london during that time. i mean, it was anything went in london. you know, it was an incredibly exciting, vibrant city. probably the most exciting city during the war in the world. and it wasn't just murrow, winant, and harriman. it was going on all over the place. there was a real carpe diem mentality. live for the day for tomorrow you may die. most of the people in london did not die. churchill actually after çóthe r is actually in the beginning of the book. talking to one of her biographers, and she said, it was a terrible war, but if you were at the right age and the right place it was spectacular. end for many people who had a serious important jobs during the war there was this other life that they had outside of the deadly serious work that they were doing. it was really an incredibly emotional charge time and an emotion charged place. >> a lot of these events turned around. the personification of france behind it. infuriated his allies, but he managed to whip up this and of spirit to save france rance fro. how did roosevelt and dugal play o

he arrived in london replacing joseph kennedy. he made very clear to the british from the beginning that he was there to share what they were going through. he steps off the plane and stepped into a bbc microphone. there is no place i would rather be than in england during the worst air raids. he would walk the streets of condon as the bombs were still falling asking everyone he met what he could do to help. e was very sincere about this. it was the first time for a lot of british that they had seen an american do that. his warmth and contamination to yhare their dangers was the first tangible sign many had that america actually did care about what happened to them and their country. he showed that side of america and his example should serve as an example not only for ambassadors but americans as a whole or anybody. his determination to work with the british or do everything he could to help the british to see that the alliance succeeded had a tremendous effect on the fact ehat it did succeed. af on his predecessor, joe kennedy,

what went on in london and britain? mean, when the news of pearl harbor came what was the reaction? >> it was really interesting how the british responded to pearl harbor. this was what was going to help them win the war. the u.s. getting into the war meant that, in fact, it took a long time, but britain was not going to be defeated. at the same time there was this sense of why didn't they do it before? it was very muted reaction. harold nicolson wrote in his diary about how surprised he was that there were no american flags flying anywhere in london the next day. people just were really kind of angry. they were glad that the americans were in, but they were very a agree that they had not come in before, that it took an attack on them come on the americans to get them into the war. so right from the beginning of this alliance there was this kind of uneasiness and, in fact, enter on the part of the british toward americans. >> overpaid, oversexed. a line here, but even, a whole paragraph that i just noticed. the yellow s

donna friesen from london heathrow airport tonight. donna, thanks. >>> more on the effort to get from point "a" to point "b" especially in europe now that mother nature plunged us back to the 1940s, an era of cars and trains and boats before jet aircraft took to the air. we asked nbc's stephanie goss to start off at dawn and show us what it was like to at least try to get from london to madrid. >> reporter: 6:00 a.m., london, ten euro star trains are sold out. the goal, get to spain. flights to the u.s. are taking off from madrid. it is early in the morning. euro star is adding three extra trains. to accommodate the extra travelers. we'll see if we can get a ticket. >> 8:55. >> reporter: that will be great. a small victory, but the beginning of a long journey. for these austrian businessmen that began last thursday. when you get to paris what will you do? get on another train? >> a coach from austria, coming to paris, picks us up. and then we go back to austria. >> reporter: 8:55 the train departs london completely packed. sadly, all t

in fact, there hasn't been a flight to london since. the volcanic ash cloud looming over part of europe means he has not been able to get home for his wedding anniversary or his 85th birthday. he's frustrated but thankful that virgin airlines has been putting him up at the hilton. >> can you imagine trying to sleep in one of those chairs? at least i'm living in a great place, good food. but i would like to be able to be get on that plane to london. >> sure. >> craig melvin, "news4 today." >> mr. thue says he has no

mark phillips is at london's heathrow airport. mark, they must be breathing a lot easier there tonight. >> reporter: yes, katie, indeed. there was a strange sight throughout this past evening: airplanes actually landing. airports across europe and the u.k. have begun to reopen and with the erratic behavior of that volcano in iceland, this has been a dramatic day of false starts. >> love you, baby. >> reporter: colleen louw stuck in london talking to her daughter missing her in iowa. >> i don't know, babe, i hope it's soon. >> reporter: the karen, haley, ten, and samuel, eight, have been asking the inevitable question. "mommy, when are you coming home?" >> reporter: and what are you telling them >> as soon as i can. >> as soon as we know. >> reporter: for the louws and everybody else stuck in europe it can't come soon enough. the day began with promise. hopes lifted along with the airplanes as the ash cloud shifted enough to allow some airports in britain and northern europe to open for business. about 13,000, roughly half of europ

and tonight we've seen the first few flights land at london's heathrow airport. this was the scene there tonight. european air space slowly comes back to life again. we can see it on live flight tracking systems like this one. yellow icons are jets in the air. you can almost see the ash line through europe north to south. while ireland and parts of germany are still restricted, others countries are coming back online after six days of no flights. not knowing what the future of this volcano may bring. we begin our coverage with dawna friesen at london heathrow airport. >> reporter: good evening, brian. here at heathrow for a while now the only sound you could hear was the sound of birds singing. tonight the familiar roar of aircraft engines is back. europe has begun flying again after the airlines put immense pressure on the authorities to let them get back to business. europe has finally become flying again. the first flight onto heathrow airport for six days touched down, a british airways flight from vancouver. >> everybody on board was cheering and clapping wh

the first, we were going to london and then we went back to shannon and then ran back to london and then went back to shannon. >> you can tell your teachers who have been learning lots about geography even though you have been missing school. >> yes. >> and how about mom? how are you feeling tonight? >> it has been quite an adventure and very often we've wondered how we were going to get home and get the kids in school. >> you were actually in the air when the restrictions were imposed. how long were you in the year before you -- you turned back? >> for two hours, i think. they told us they were just going to turn our flight to vancouver. as far as these things go, it has not been too bad. >> are you excited to get back to school or are you quite glad to be missing in? >> pinecraft glad to be missing it. [laughter] -- i am quite glad to be missing it. [laughter] >> you get much more on line and bbc.com as well as twitter and facebook. thanks for being with us. >> see the news unfold, and get the top stories from around a globae at bbc.com/news to get te news online. >> funding was made p

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flights from london are cancelled at least through saturday morning. government meteorologist derrick ryall says his agency is taking regular looks at the vast volcanic cloud. >> what we really want to know is what the plume is actually doing, where is it now, and how high is it-- things like that. are in it. once you've got that sort of those observes and measurements they can help calibrate what they're doing. and then you can make a better assessment of the risks to aviation. >> suarez: closing the skies to travelers set the dominoes tumbling here on the ground. whether at the british ferry ports, or at the train station sending runs under the english channel to the continent, every seat on every departure was sold, and the next available ticket wasn't until tomorrow night. its a reminder, there are only so many ways off an island. but travelers we spoke to, suddenly faced with an unscheduled british vacation, kept their good humor, and so far, their patience. >> traveling with a group of 16 students, and has to see if >> suarez: bigger names than f

this is piccadilly circus in central london. saying, that if you stand here long enough, everyone in the world will walk by once. after the skies over britain were once again opened to the world that has at least a better shot at being true. >> ifill: now, president obama launches his search for a new supreme court justice. >> i think we've got some terrific potential candidates. >> ifill: the president offered that optimistic assessment as he gathered senate leaders to discuss his next supreme court nomination. >> i'm confident that we can come up with a nominee who will gain the confidence of the senate and the confidence of the country, and the confidence of individuals who look to the court to provide evenhanded justice to all americans. >> ifill: court watchers say the president's short list has now grown to ten potential nominees. among them: current u.s. solicitor general and former harvard law school dean elena kagan. three federal appeals court judges: diane wood, merrick garland and sidney thomas. and former georgia st

in london, the ftse opened higher. the dow gained 73 points on monday. and the nasdaq lost one point. >>> general motors is expected to make good on a promise to fully repay the $6.7 billion loan funded by u.s. taxpayers. gm's ceo is expected to make the details public tomorrow, during a visit to a plant in kansas city. gm has already made two $1 billion payments and promised to have the entire government loan paid off before the end of june. >>> toyota is recalling its lexus gx 460 suv to fix those stability control problems. that is the model consumer reports warned consumers not to buy two weeks ago. their tests showed the suv skidded out of control during sharp turns. toyota is offering to update the stablts control software in the lexus and land cruiser model. >>> last year's cyber attack on google put the private information of millions at risk. intruders from china broke into systems giving access to multiple google services with just one logon. the passwords of gmail users were not involved. but still, the information may help hackers find other

in london and new york you have to have a great amount of money. here all it takes is a couple pipes. >> and they don't get drunk. >> that's a beautiful, beautiful city. >>> coming up, we send a reporter to a pet house pet auction. sadly he came back. >> well, greg, i went to this for rid eye and i was handcuffed to ivy. it could be worse. ♪ red eye >> so the election for new york governor is just months away, bill. between now and november 2nd, the candidates will be busy raising money to pack the rigorous campaigns that lie ahead. when the former james threw themselves into the body flt of the race, naturally we were interested. and when she invited us to her campaign fundraiser and told us there would be free booze and hot chicks there, we knew we owed it to them to investigate further. so i september tom owe cop -- so i sent tom o'connor to check it out. >> i am here at kristen davis' fundraiser. as you know it is trying to go from the former governor's madam. she is trying to raise $2 million. how? she is auctioning off dates with penthouse pe

. >> reporter: he's exhibited in london and l.a.ien na. >> you would be looking to pay half a million dollars. >> reporter: he's made political statements at disney land and on the wall that keeps palestinians away from israelis. he's made countless statements elsewhere, but no one knows who he is. >> you didn't deal with banksy directly? >> no, i've never met banksy. i have no idea who he is. it could be you. >> reporter: we went to the east end of london in search of his early artwork, the street that first made him famous. >> a little from here up. it's still here if you look hard enough. ♪ >> reporter: and it's getting more and more valuable. >> we saw an opportunity and took it. >> reporter: bradley bought this wall and spent nine days removing it, thousands of dollars moving it. banksy won't authenticate it. >> we understand that. that isn't to say there isn't a market for it. >> reporter: for sale, half a million dollars. >> if it is, i'm surprised no one stole the door. most bank banksies are left to fade. the bbc has search

london, england. 2015. spent nuclear fuel from the reactor is en route to the world's largest reprocessing plant in england. it makes a routine rail journey through the heart of london. the train approaches a half-mile-long tunnel north of the city center. in the darknd, the badly maintained track buckled, derailing the train. fortunately, the protective flasks are intact. but before the train's crew can raise the alarm, a freight strain laidened with oil rumbles into the tunnel, plowing head on to the derailed train. the spark ignites the spilled fuel. the tunnel's brick walls act like a furnace, temperatures rise to 2,500 degrees fahrenheit. fire crews assess the radiation levels and know it's time to evacuate. pressure will build up and build up rapidly an hour and a half into the fire would be sufficient to break it and enable the fuel to be broken up released into the atmosphere. >> even though only 1% of the radioactive fuel is likely to be released, it's all it takes to create the deadly plume over l

kml in london and luf tanza is germany also launched test flights. all the pilots say it's safe to fly. the airlines have been very cooperative with aviation authorities, but they are just coming out of recession and now they're losing an estimated $200 million a day. they're beginning to push back. pushing back by pressuring governments to lift the ban on flying. >> all the data from these various deferent flights that are being made are being fed into the european regulators so they can form a more accurate picture of what's happening with this ash cloud over northern europe. >> reporter: a concern some of the ash, while invisible, may still be dangerous. >> we know that volcanic ash has a very, very negative impact upon jet engines. >> reporter: today, frankfurt, berlin and warsaw allowed some flights to operate and european officials were hopeful that as many as 50% of all flights might take off tomorrow. hundreds of thousands of passengers remain stranded at airports across europe today, hoping for one thing. >> we want to go home, back to our o

john and his new wife live near london. they have been trying to get back since thursday. >> we have been on our honeymoon. >> they call it good luck. >> reporter: it was her first trip to america. she was supposed to return to the netherlands friday. >> my sister is getting married on thursday and i really want to be there. >> reporter: early monday afternoon it looked like she would. around 7:00 word began to travel to the stranded and weary. >> they told us we had a 50/50 chance. >> reporter: the eruption spewed a new cloud of ash heading toward the united kingdom meaning scenes like this. a french tour group was supposed to leave d.c. over the weekend. british airways have been putting all 49 up at them at an area hotel and feeding them. they are scheduled for the midnight flight. >> if we catch something before, we are here. >> reporter: undoubtedly frustrating for the french travelers but more so for an airline industry losing a whopping $200 million a day while the folks at dulles try to figure out how they are tryin

jim bolden, cnn, london. >>> pretty extraordinary. that ash spread is spreading even further. jack yack jacqui jeras in the weather center. that's because the wind is caring it? >> that's right. wind will carry that ash hundreds or thousands of miles. it could go over to asia. the ash plume itself vertically goes about 4.5 to 5 miles in the air. one of the other concerns we have high pressure in control over parts of europe. so it's sitting there over some of these areas, too. this is the latest showing you what the air traffic is looking like in the air across parts of europe. all these blue little areas is where we should be seeing the yellow airplanes, but we are not. they are only down here across spain into the mediterranean. they were able to go across southern europe but not parts of the north. those jet stream winds you were talking about, this is what we are estimating what they are doing today. here is the volcano over iceland. it's going across europe and into russia. we are going to see a little bit of change in the weather pattern. maybe by the middle of the week

extra five days they say oh, how cool, you are in london. yeah. i'm at the holiday inn at the heathrow airport. the answer is -- it is lovely. it is all just lovely here. what i was thinking about today -- it is 11:00, i'm head for bed. but all day today, what you do when you don't have any control of anything, you try to control. you know. what we have been doing, my husband and i, all day today, trying to book any possible way out of here. we know that we have a flight on monday. that's the soonest they can get us you on. the problem is if we have another disruption, do we really get out of here? so we are -- we have literally booked five different train passages. we have two different plane reservations. we have a car here in london. we have a car reserved on the contine continent. we have a hotel room here. we have to book three hotel rooms between france and spain if we decide to leave tomorrow and dry to drive to madrid. it is craziness. what you try to do to sort of grab control when you don't have any. >> it sounds crazy. it is getti

at london's heathrow airport.ng. >> at the end of the day, many tell us they are home sick and exhausted. and just ready to get settled. >> go home and go to sleep for a day or so. >> tonight, flight was early. and airport officials tell me that all flights coming in and going out are expected to be on time. but they urge all passengers to contact their airline before leaving home. reporting live at bwi thurgood marshall airport. karen parks, fox 45 news at 10:00. >> thank you karen. >> baltimore city council members want verizon to bring fios to the city of baltimore. growing number of city leaders want verizon to bring the fiber optic technology right here. currently baltimore is the only major jurisdiction in state of maryland that does not have fios. >> unfortunately we have a long history here in baltimore. of this sort of treatment. by big corporations. whether it is banks or insurance companies, auto insurance, seems to be this prejudice that exists out there against baltimore. >> baltimore city council hea

good luck to you getting back to london. complain if you are stuck and get more time with family. so you enjoy. appreciate it. god to see you, zain. thanks so much. >>> coming up next hour, another story about the volcano stranding people. parents are stuck in europe. parents whose four kids are waiting for them to come home. they have been talking to their kids via skype. that's getting old as well. i have talked to this couple yesterday on the air. the lady broke down crying because she misses her kids so much. the community is helping out with the kids until mom and dad get home. stay with us. we get double miles on every purchase. so we earned a ski trip twice as fast. we get double miles every time we use our card. ( thuds ) i'll take this. ( crashing ) double miles add up quick. and all of those. so we brought the whole gang. one adult, one goat please. it's hard to beat double miles. everyone knows two is better than one. introducing the venture card from capital one... with double miles on every purchase every day. g

. >> the plan is expected to land between 7:00 and 7:30, bringing the first passengers from london. we will bring you the latest on that tonight at 11:00. >> we do have continuing coverage of the travel disruptions on our website. go to wbaltv.com and click on "travel." >> what will tonight bring? we'll check in with tom tasselmyer. >> moderate to heavy rain, especially along the i-95 corridor into howard and cecil county. here in baltimore, we have had less than 0.2% rejec2/10 inch of rain. the drying trend in amounts will push toward baltimore and the eastern shore, leading to far overnight. -- leading to fog over night. there is more rain in the forecast. details coming up in a little bit. >> the latest forecast is always at your fingertips on wbaltv.com. >> howard county executive's submitted the proposed budget to the county council. there are no tax hikes or fee increases, but nonpublic said the employee's base for furlough days, and no one will be getting a pay raise this year. david collins is live in colombia with more on the county spending plan. >> the county executive sa

he joined when he was in college here at the university of london. >> nawaz: this is where i actually took the oath, the membership oath. >> stahl: and recruited other students to fight against the west. was it easy to recruit kids here? were they susceptible? as you say, they're very intelligent, they're well-read. >> nawaz: it was very easy. and i've got to say that, actually, intelligence makes it easier. and it's intelligent people that adopt ideologies. >> stahl: he points to people like the alleged christmas day bomber, who also attended the university of london; and the ringleader of the suicide bombing of the london underground, who went to leeds metropolitan university. >> our religion is islam... >> stahl: here he is in this martyrdom video, telling the british public that, by invading iraq, the west demonstrated it was out to destroy muslims. >> your democratically elected governments continuously perpetuate atrocities against my people all over the world. >> nawaz: and this is in a thick yorkshire accent, someone who's born and raised in the u.k., saying to his own fellow

it looks like most of london's airports will remain closed for a sixth day. as europe began to emerge from the first volcanic cloud, limited air traffic resumed giving hope to millions of travelers stranded around the world. these folks boarded a flight from frankfurt. >> i am so happy to get out of here. >> reporter: airports in paris re-opened for a few flights this morning but the relief at the prospecs f specspect of getting tempered with a little anxiety. >> i'm a little afraid. i'm hopeful that the plane will take off and that it won't meet with any volcanic ash. >> reporter: there are confusing messages about how safe the skies are, how much volcanic ash is too much to allow planes to fly. some have questioned whether the restrictions are an overreaction. european authorities are adamant they are not. a handful of flights left asian air hubs today for europe. spain has volunteered to be an emergency hub for overseas travelers trying to get home. organizing extra buses, trains and ferries to handle an expected rush of passengers. a british navy ship has

abc news, london. >> of public viewing will be held tonight for the d.c. principal found shot to death at his home last week. if police are still searching for his killing. brian betts was the principal of shaw middle school in northwest. if the viewing will be held from 6:00 to 9:00 tonight, pierce funeral home in manassas. >>> in memory of brandon carroll, there was a vigil last night. the basketball student was from waldorf. >> he had the most positive outlook on life. >> we are grieving together and morning together as a family. >> another frostburg student, tyrone hall, charged with murdering brandon carroll and another student. he said that he fired in self- defense and is being held without bond. >> the residents will have to wait longer to get a vote in the house. steny hoyer says lawmakers will not pick up the vote this year. the problem was a senate amendment that would have eliminated the tough gun-control laws in the city. it would have given d.c. a house vote and added an extra seat for a republican in utah. still ahead, a new plan would push

he was hiding in london. the benefit of virtual freedom of the press as it existed in london. frank with the british could not care less if levels were being produced in london and smuggled into france. in fact, they were at war. it was our war that gave us independence, and it was a terrific time for the life of a libel. so this fellow was churning out bibles. he was only one of the whole company of french expatriate to made this the specialty. the book sold very well, but they also were excellent for blackmailing the french. so there was a letter. i am a loyal subject of the king and have discovered to my horror that a terrible subject is about to publish a book about, well about, well, about the queen and they came and their relations or lack of relations. it is really distressing for a certain sum every last copy of this edition could be destroyed. so, there is a wonderful black mail operation that takes send to a full year. without going into detail the police finally not having succeeded in kidnapping or they did not manage to buy him off for a whole series of reasons, t

passengers were carried back to london for the either hour red eye. >> and a columbia couple happy after the ash cloud stopped them from a much anticipated trip to paris. they took a french class back in high school. that was 40 years ago. since then they have dreamed of a week in paris. it's scheduled to leave last friday. united states airways rebooked their flight but have to switch hotels and loose on the cost of one night. it's a less on in the importance of traveler's insurance they say. >> a wisconsin man has been arrested and charged in connection with a violent attack. police say a 21-year-old sexually assaulted a woman in her home. they say he knocked on her door and tried to sell her magazines. he then asked to use her bathroom and then assaulted her. he is being held on $2 million bail. >> story that has gotten national attention. a student beaten by police and it was all caught on tape. a student is suing. what could be the most important video went missing and then was found. brad bell has the story. >> the once lost now found video was shot by this security camera. it is o

i opened an office in washington and london the same week. hear, i found a piece of space and light, signed the lease, painted my name on the door, and i was in business. in britain, 40,000 pounds later, i was in business. i am not arguing that these laws are easy to enforce but i do think that they can be done and it has been done historically. i think conservatives would do well to rally around that flag because it means less government, not more. if you keep competition moving, you did not have to have a regulatory structure. that is one thing i think conservatives can do. kiddie picture some of the conservatives we know testifying for an extended budget for the antitrust division? where effective competition is impossible, we need regulation. you cannot a kid out of that. there are and there remains something that we called natural monopolies. there are not as many as we used to think. not telecommunications or airlines but the transmission of electric power over long distances, the distribution of natural gas under the streets of this ci

>> mitchell: richard roth in london, thank you very much. secretary of defense robert gates late today confirmed reports that he sent a memo to the white house earlier this year concerning u.s. strategy dealing with iran's nuclear program. in washington wyatt andrews has more. what's the latest? >> reporter: russ, good evening. "the new york times" reported today and we confirmed that in jab secretary of defense gates sent a three-page secret memo to the white house in which he essentially said the straight had no effective strategy for dealing with the possibility that iran might be capable of building a nuclear weapon. today gates took the unusual step of denying that he meant to shake anything up at the white house, that he was trying to issue a wake-up call, that this was a memo that came in the normal course of business as the white house was going about new contingency planning, new planning for pressure on what would happen in the event that iran got to the point of having all the components for a nuclear weapon but had not yet put on

a car bomb was set off in central london. another at the air force. was a baptism of fire for the new prime minister. there was flooding into the north and the self of england. a disease threatened to return. the prime minister was riding high in the polls. there was talk that david cameron might be ousted as leader. >> as politicians gathered by the seaside, speculation was under way that gordon brown would call an election. just two days before parliament returned, gordon brown said that there would be no election that year. there was concern that the new prime minister had lost his nerve. >> the prime minister was asked, and on hard, if the polls showed a 100 seat majority would you still call of the election, and he said yes. does he expect anyone to believe that? >> he was for grammar schools, then against them, then for them again. he was for parking charges, then against them. he was born museum charges, against them. i will take -- for museum charges, then against them. i will take no more elections from this prime minister. >> does he remembe

and then there is the -- the conservative view on kelo versus new london. which is -- and after kelo, there really -- this was very polarized. and the debate became even hotter after kelo versus new london because there were the conservatives who supported the new london residents, kelo who said if we don't want to give up our land we don't have to and there were the people who were supporting the new london, the positivists, the relativists who believed the way the constitution was to be interpreted is that the government should have the right to take over your land at any time for any reason. now, the -- in my opinion, yes, eminent domain is in the constitution. there are necessities for eminent domain. there are some necessities for eminent domain that we can make a case for. now, personally i don't think light rail is one of them. but the way eminent domain is written in the constitution, it is that you are giving a compensation so that it's a changing of wealth. it's not a government owning your wealth to begin with. i personally don't agree with the i

ray suarez is in london with this report. >> suarez: today brought another day of empty skies , quietkies, and costly skies. from the hundreds of millions already lost by grounded airlines and the anticipated millions in losses to come to the mangos not being shipped through a big british importer to a flower seller in london sojo for more than 40 years. facing his election opponents once again this week and the british voters in a few weeks, prime minister gordon brown ordered the royal navy to pick up scattered and stranded british subjects. >> it will be sent to the channel. and it will be available at channel ports as soon as possible to help people come to britain. >> suarez: the safety and operations editor for a leading international aviation news service, david leermont says the caution surrounding opening airports in the world's most crowded air space is understandable. >> the reason why the air traffic control organization has said controlled air space is closed at the moment and you may not use it is because they know there is a risk . they don't know what the size of that

after a successful run in london's west end, it's now on broadway.e is a look at the production. >> these pictures deserve compassion and they live or die in the eye of the sensitive viewer. that's why they were created. that's what they deserve. now, what do you see? >> red. >> $35,000 they're paying. no other painter comes close. where do you earn the right to exist here with me and all these pictures you don't understand. red! oh, you want to paint the goddamn thing? go ahead, here! here's red! i'm red! tragic, really, to grow superfluous in your own lifetime. >> i'm here to stop your art! i'm not here to make pretty pictures! >> rose: also joining us, the director michael grandage. he's director of the donmar warehouse where the play was first stage and the playwright john logan. i'm pleased to have all of them here at this table to talk about "red", which people are talking about. welcome. >> thank you. >> rose: why is mark rothko interesting in this day? of thoe questions like "have you stopped beating your wife?" whether you say yes or no, you

she's in london, and i'm sure you're going to tell us, liz, this is not your fault and you're really trying to get back here as you've been meaning to for the longest time. but you're just stuck, right? >> well, i know you miss me terribly. >> liz, one of the problems that people have with the airlines whenever there's a problem is that they don't talk to you. they won't tell you anything. are you at least getting any information from the airlines over there? >> no. the difficult thing about this jim, we landed thursday of last week and as soon as we touched down, basically they shut the air space because of the volcano. we had no idea obviously what had happened. most of it is about all the britainings trying to get back here, not so much about us trying to get out. but what's amazing is, the systems that have been set up to make thing works on a normal day like 800 numbers or websites where you can check on thing, as soon as millions of people all need it all at once, guess what? >> they shut down. >> that's right, they don't answer. you get, you know, you get trey try again later.

he's currently a columnist from the "sunday times of london." he has author and edited many books. he's been on the faculty of several university, including cornell and new york university, he's well known as the public intellectual and the free advances of enterprise and capitalism. and we're delighted and honored to have an old friend here to speak to us about conservative and the new capitalism. irvin steltzer. [applause] >> thank you. it's nice to be introduced. excuse me, can you hear me in the back? it's nice to be introduced by someone who's young enough to not be surprised to be listened to. i well you, i approach the assignment with trepidation for a couple of reasons. the distinguished scholar that is proceeded me, this is a very distinguished series were students of the still gush philosophies. that's not what i am. my theoretical tools have been bent out of shape in the real world in which second best reigns. i'll try to avehicle code the effect of lecture like this at this over by overstating a proposition or two in the hope that outrage will keep you awake. i'm good a

. >> reporter: london isn't even on the board here. no one knows for sure when flights get off the ground so there's nothing to do but wait. a spokeswoman says they haven't had anyone camping out on the benches here waiting for flights. instead, they have been killing time for area hotels and even sight-seeing. >> we had to do it now. the government's trying to make it easier. >> reporter: but the sitting around never gets easier. many stranded travelers tell us it's a pain in the ash. joce sterman, abc 2 news. >>> british airways has a flight scheduled to arrive tonight. and one that's supposed to head to london. both have been canceled because of the volcanic ash. be shauer to watch world news tonight with diane sawyer. she will be reporting on how the backlogs are growing longer and longer. it begins tonight rate after abc 2 news at 6:00. you'll see that at 6:30. >>> tonight, the nation is mourning the death of dr. dorothy height, a leading voice in the civil rights movement who fought for quality education, justice and human rights

. >> sonia gallego joins from us london with more. >>> good morning. with that fatal plane crash that claimed the country's president and first lady, officials have pinpointed the plane's landing attempt. the plane's black box reveals that pilot error may have played a part in the crash. the vice president of russia's airport says the pilot of the 1245 aircraft was flying too low in thick fog and narrowly missed the runway when it attempted to land at pechorsk's airport, using this to demonstrate the ascent. aside from the president lech kaczynski only 15 bodies have been identified. the body was identified by his twin brother yarraf. tens of thousands of people gathered to watch the body of president kaczynski go through the streets of warsaw, as sirens wailed, two minutes of silence went across the country. it has been a focus of people's tributes. but amidst the morning, many are turning their thoughts as to how the plane with so many high-ranking dignitaries on board came to such a tragic end. >> when you've got the president of the country and oth

when they do with the factors the agents in london they have a tendency to use a very cryptic system to tell their agents what grace to sell at and so on. if the message was intercepted, then the 18th century you have no privacy in the mail. it is public information and you could be assured that somebody would read along the way. one of the situations it is you have a dr. benjamin church, the surgeon general of the continental army, one of the five leaders of the patriot movement of massachusetts along with john and samuel adams and john hancock and dr. church the only problem is dr. church is a british spy and has been on the british payroll since at least 1772 is so while he is running the american hospital sees cents in information to british generals in boston. what you see at the bottom of the screen is the actual decoded handwritten message the decipher key that was intercepted he was not able to send his mail directly to boston red go down to newport. he sent his mistress who was a prostitute in boston down to newport to one of her former clients to get the message to the brit

in london, charlie d'agata, wjz eyewitness news. >> the first flight from london to bwi airport landed. >>> a man is suing the vatican over their response to an allegation of abuse by an american priest. >> reverend lawrence murphy is accused of molesting over 200 boys from 1950 to 1974. in the federal lawsuit filed today, one of the alleged victims accused pope benedict and senior vatican officials are failing to protect children from murphy, knowing he was a possible child molester. the plaintiff said he wrote two letters to the vatican, reporting the abuse and asking for help. the lawsuit suggests the vatican didn't discipline murphy because he made a lot of money through fundraising for the church. >>> seeking the relief of controversial vatican files on clergy abuse operations. >>> baltimore area catholics are gathered at the cathedral of mary our queen, to honor -- mary our queen, to honor the life of archbishop borders. the public viewing continues today until 9:00. it continues tomorrow, from 9:00 a.m. to noon. the mass and christian burial will be tomorrow. he died at the age

. >> if you want to go to great britain, look out london, here we come.eaking news now. the airports in london will reopen across the you kingdom, it's now 36 minutes past 8:00 and tonight the -- all the airports are opening up. it didn't say the names, but the government says uk airports to reopen tonight. that means london city, heathrow, combat wick, across the uk. god save the queen. this has been crippling for great britain's economy. think of it. that volcano in iceland dominated travel news. but have you heard about spirit airlines new plan to charge passengers for car carryon bags? 40 bucks just to put a bag up there. we'll talk with spirit's chief marketing officer about this move. this should be fascinating. it's next. >> shepard: big developments today in the november shooting massacre at fort hood. a subpoena has been issued to the pentagon and justice at the present time to find out if they had information that could have prevented the shooting. the u.s. army charged dr. major nidal hasan with 13 counts of murder and 32 counts of attempted mu

in london, who claims to have invented it.although it was, the formula was known by the british for 100 years before. so he probably may have taken a liberal license and claiming he invented it or he may have tweaked it a bit. the americans later on the setup, john jay, his brother, sets up a laboratory of around the skill, no, to manufacture the agent and we agent that are used. so once the laboratory is actually established, the americans have a plentiful supply. the potter at the time was available to any medical slide. so anyplace that there was a surge they would have had it. >> this will be our last question. >> okay. >> in your research and in your book, how many of these individual spies had to come across as i assume these are the ones that have surfaced again i'm curious kind of how many have surfaced, how many were hung and how many were actually suspected that never discovered, the best spies of the al. >> many were never discovered many because they operated one time. what i have found -- when i started doing this

as many of you know richard is based in london. appears to me he is airporting hopping to see if he get a flight back home. if you are one of those people like richard who did have a booking to get back home you might have to wait longer than you thought you were going to wait after the flights resume. >> what we're seeing from here, good afternoon from newark, ali. the story, as the crisis moves into the next phase. it says passengers whose flights have already been canceled are now trying to either be wait listed or confirmed on new seats. now, look behind me. this is a group of people who have been waiting for jet airways, which flies from india via brussels up to new york. what has happened, of course, is that over the past few days, they've been flying via athens instead. now, these passengers have been here for some four days. they're starting to get extremely testy. voices have been raised. but, of course, it's understandable, ali. they've been waiting four days. jet is now flying again via brussels, so planes will be leavin

there is also a spy who carried messages from london to paris to benjamin franklin. he used false heels on his boots to carry the message. washington's deception. the one thing i do have to say about washington. for somebody who never told a lie, he certainly stretched the truth about a lot. up in cambridge when he first takes over the american army, they were down actually nine rounds per man. nine shots, that was it. as far as the gunpowder they actually had in the camp. he notes there was british spies going around the american camp so what he did was, he had a shipment of barrels brought up from providence, rhode island, mark gunpowder. the only problem is, inside the barrels with sand. so the british spies would go back and report that the americans had plenty of gunpowder and they would able to keep the seat siege up for a long time. he also did a thing called truth multiplication at moorestown. after the battles of trenton and princeton, the american army goes up decamp moorestown. while they are, normally you would put most of your troops, cluster them in hou

david benjamin was an immigrant from london whose family settled in leavenworth. you know may be in kansas city better his brother, alfred benjamin for whom there are many statutes of that city. the benjamins were the beginning of philanthropic jewish communities in kansas city and which was the model for a lot of philanthropy throughout the country. david benjamin was fred harvey's bank teller. he became the first full-time employee in the restaurant business in the 1880s he was dispatched to kansas city to set up the office and he and fred harvey's son ran the business in fact many years more than fred harvey did. fred harvey said an invention of the fred harvey to some degree part of the reason people thought he was a life for years after is that was his plan. the people land to the eckert in the business day today and were the bedrock of the comanche and kansas city for literally decades or david benjamin and of course freds some for harvey. he came into the business, he was forced to the college of the age of 19 to come to the business in the 1880s. he marrie