in the "new york times" magazine, annie lowry asks the question, is it crazy to think we can eradicate poverty around the world? the answer seems to be no, it is not crazy at all. she says the gains we've seen in eradicating poverty are in part because the bar is set extremely low. $1.25 is the daily income threshold. despite this, 1.2 billion people around the world are living this way. in extreme poverty. hopefully, not for long. lowry writes fortunately this deadly and cyclical form of poverty is already on its way towards obsolescence. the first world bank millennium goal to have the proportion of the world population living in dire poverty by 2015 was met five years early. as the rate fell to an estimated 21% in 2010, from 43% in 1990. lowry interviews experts who say that even though the developing world has gotten its act together, poverty reduction depends on the advanced economies getting their act together, too. here in america, there is not so much optimism when it comes to getting our act together. when it comes to the economy, the stau its has become a tale of two countrie

editor of the national review rich lowry.managing editor of the grio.com and msnbc contributor joy reid. a lot to pick up on. speaker gingrich, the terror debate which can extend from benghazi now to syria to threats to the homeland after boston. how is the president doing? >> oh, i think in the long run not particularly well. i think mayor giuliani stated a good example. 42 months after ft. hood we are pretending that this is a workplace incident when somebody jumps up, yelling allah and kills a bunch of american soldiers clearly related to radical islam. on the fbi most wanted list, 30 -- for terrorism, 30 of the 31 are islamists. yet the coverage of the first two days after boston was, gee, i wonder what motivated these two chechens? now, we still refuse to come to grips with how serious and how long term this problem is going to be. i think it could be a 50 to 70 year problem. >> joy, it's a political question. it's a security question. two years after osama bin laden has been killed, are we safer as a country or not? >>

joining me now from orlando is boston globe reporter wesley lowry and here in studio, gene o'donnell,er. thank you both for being here tonight. >> thanks for having me. >> this is an incredible situation. he and the boston bomber committed the three murders. >> that's correct. it came ten years after the 9/11 attacks. some of his best friends were killed in this murder. now last night it seems that the second suspect was here in orlando preparing to admit to this grisly murder and just snapped. this has been a massive development. >> wesley, what else can you tell us about what he said to the agents? >> you know, we're still -- the details are trickling out. nbc has been upfront about this. what we know so far, what we believe so far is he was about to sign a confession to this triple homicide just outside of boston when something snapped, something happened, i got angry, threatened the officer, injured the officer, and that's when he was shot and killed. >> now, eugene, it's a bloody triple murder and the police never came up with a suspect and now we find out the boston bomber has n

lincecum's throw continue, there goes which he had lowry.d score. 2-run score, but the giants are making a comeback, 7-6. a's lead. top of the 9th. >>> surprise thunderstorms brought the texas rangers to a stop. and the game was postponed. >>> blackhawks and redwings game 7 in chicago. chickic up 1-0 -- chicago up 1-0, then zetterberg buried it into the open net. wide open, scores! and that sends the blackhawks to the western conference finals. and they will face your los angeles kings who defeated the sharks. and some people think every time the sharks lose in the postseason, you got to blow it up. but this is a team that made big strides over the last year. >> and they were playing the champs! look at 'em. living on cloud nine with that u-verse wireless receiver. you see in my day, when my mom was repainting the house, you couldn't just set up a tv in the basement. i mean, come on! nope. we could only watch tv in the rooms that had a tv outlet. yeah if we wanted to watch tv someplace else, we'd have to go to my aunt sally's. have you ever

rich lowry, editor of the national review, jim pinkerton, contributing editor of the american conservative magazine and ellen rattner, talk radio news service bureau chief. i'm jon scott. fox news watch is on right now. in president you are 100 days into second term. on the gun bill you put everything into it to try to get it passed. obviously it didn't. congress has ignored your effort to try to get them to undue the sequester cuts, there was a bill that you threatened to veto that got 92 democrats in the house voting yes. so, my question to you is do you still have the juice to get the rest of your agenda through this congress? >> if you put it that way, jonathan, maybe i should just pack up and go home. golly. >> jon: president obama, a rare appearance there in the white house briefing room taking some tough questions from the press corps. jim, it was all kicked off by fox news chief white house correspondent ed henry who asked the president about his red line on libya how did the president do. >> i think the president had a very tough week. is he looking feckless on the syria, whatever

he walks lowry with the bases loaded and young scores and it is 3-1a's. the next batter and a base writ to right. a's up 4-1. he allowed four runs in two and a third innings. jarod parker went seven innings for the victory. a's beat the giants the second straight game. 6-3 the final as the series continues tomorrow in san francisco. a little hoops and heat and pacers and fourth quarter tied at 86. ray alan falling out of bounds and hits the three. the heat up three. good to be 7 foot two. that's my analysis. 23 points and 12 rebounds. under a minute left and lebron james called for an illegal screen and fouls out. lebron is thinking, does the commissioner know i am not allowed to foul out? yes, he is. pacers win it 99-92 and even the series at two games apiece. concern forayeders' first round draft particular dj hayden has been in the hospital for five days following abdominal surgery. he had life-saving cornel rein november -- surgery after a hit in practice tore a blood vessel to his heart. we are told the recent surgery was to remove scar tissue in the

lowry scores. timmy's night is over after four and a third and five earned runs allowed. 6-1a's after 5. the giants chipping away and the panda with a base hit off doolittle who is impossible to score against. giants down 7-6, but the a's tack on two more in the 9th. he goes two for three and three r.b.i's 9-6a's. they go for a four-game sweep tomorrow afternoon. the a's are sizzling winning six in a row. cooling it off we go to the ice. chicago is down 3-1 in the series, but they force a game seven and patrick sharp makes it 1-0 blackhawks. we are tied at one. here is the controversy. less than two minutes to go and he scores, but no behind the play and he is called on detroit's kyle quincy. the whistle blows the play dead. just a split second before the goal was scored. it doesn't count. chicago feeling robbed, but in over time there is justice. sea brooke ends it. the blackhawks win it three straight games to take the series four games to three. they will meet l.a. in the western conference fina

he walks lowry with the bases loaded and young scores and it is 3-1a's. the next batter and a base writ to right. a's up 4-1. he allowed four runs in two and a third innings. jarod parker went seven innings for the victory. a's beat the giants the second straight game. 6-3 the final as the series continues tomorrow in san francisco. a little hoops and heat and pacers and fourth quarter tied at 86. ray alan falling out of bounds and hits the three. the heat up three. good to be 7 foot two. that's my analysis. 23 points and 12 rebounds. under a minute left and lebron james called for an illegal screen and fouls out. lebron is thinking, does the commissioner know i am not allowed to foul out? yes, he is. pacers win it 99-92 and even the series at two games apiece. concern forayeders' first round draft particular dj hayden has been in the hospital for five days following abdominal surgery. he had life-saving cornel rein november -- surgery after a hit in practice tore a blood vessel to his heart. we are told the recent surgery was to remove scar tissue in the

lowry scores.my's night is over after four and a third and five earned runs allowed. 6-1a's after 5. the giants chipping away and the panda with a base hit off doolittle who is impossible to score against. giants down 7-6, but the a's tack on two more in the 9th. he goes two for three and three r.b.i's 9-6a's. they go for a four-game sweep tomorrow afternoon. the a's are sizzling winning six in a row. cooling it off we go to the ice. chicago is down 3-1 in the series, but they force a game seven and patrick sharp makes it 1-0 blackhawks. we are tied at one. here is the controversy. less than two minutes to go and he scores, but no behind the play and he is called on detroit's kyle quincy. the whistle blows the play dead. just a split second before the goal was scored. it doesn't count. chicago feeling robbed, but in over time there is justice. sea brooke ends it. the blackhawks win it three straight games to take the series four games to three. they will meet l.a. in the western conference final. l

fifth inning, tim one to lowry who crushes rbi double. 3 to 1 a's. lins comb gives five runs. stands 5.12. singles to center field off javier lopez. the a's scored four in the frame, led 6 to 1, had three runs batted in. giants going to come storming back. eighth inning down 7 to 5. we got a one-run ball game, but you know the difference tonight? the giants' defense. they commit three more errors. josh donaldson base hit to left. andre torres thought he was at the bull pike. another run scored. 30th straight game. a's win 9 to 6. the a's going to go for that inner-league sweep tomorrow. >>> game 7 in chicago as the black hawks try to win three straight versus detroit to take that series. chicago one to nothing. 26 seconds into the third it's the red wings with the equalizer. so go to overtime. look at brent. in the detroit zone untouched, slap shot, game winner, and the black hawks going to the western conference finals. they'll face the kings. >>> the new york rangers have fired head coach john tortorella today. not many in the media will mind he's gone, we will soon miss his

lou: good evening thank you for joining us sam lowry rothmans so another record-breaking day on wall street fuelled by the unemployment rate dropping to the lowest point* in over two years. the jobless rate dropping at 7.5% the labor department reports when hundred 65,000 jobs added to the u.s. payroll last month beating expectations. the employment increase of professional and business services in the manufacturing sector holding payroll steady despite reactivity slowing. this is all they needed as the perfect excuse to run dow jones industrial average

he walks lowry with the bases loaded and young scores and it is 3-1a's.ext batter and a base writ to right. a's up 4-1. he allowed four runs in two and a third innings. jarod parker went seven innings for the victory. a's beat the giants the second straight game. 6-3 the final as the series continues tomorrow in san francisco. a little hoops and heat and pacers and fourth quarter tied at 86. ray alan falling out of bounds and hits the three. the heat up three. good to be 7 foot two. that's my analysis. 23 points and 12 rebounds. under a minute left and lebron james called for an illegal screen and fouls out. lebron is thinking, does the commissioner know i am not allowed to foul out? yes, he is. pacers win it 99-92 and even the series at two games apiece. concern forayeders' first round draft particular dj hayden has been in the hospital for five days life-saving cornel reinery. november -- surgery after a hit in practice tore a blood vessel to his heaold thewe are y was to remove scar tissue in the abdominal region. hayden may not be able to practice unt

lowry scores.my's night is over after four and a third and five earned runs allowed. 6-1a's after 5. the giants chipping away and the panda with a base hit off doolittle who is impossible to score against. giants down 7-6, but the a's tack on two more in the 9th. he goes two for three and three r.b.i's 9-6a's. they go for a four-game sweep tomorrow afternoon. the a's are sizzling winning six in a row. cooling it off we go to the ice. chicago is down 3-1 in the series, but they force a game seven and patrick sharp makes it 1-0 blackhawks. we are tied at one. here is the controversy. less than two minutes to go and he scores, but no behind the play and he is called on detroit's kyle quincy. the whistle blows the play dead. just a split second before the goal was scored. it doesn't count. chicago feeling robbed, but in over time there is justice. sea brooke ends it. the blackhawks win it three straight games to take the series four games to three. they will meet l.a. in the western conference final. l

lou: good evening thank you for joining us sam lowry rothmans so another record-breaking day on wall street fuelled by the unemployment rate dropping to the lowest point* in over two years. the jobless rate dropping at 7.5% the labor department reports when hundred 65,000 jobs added to the u.s. payroll last month beating expectations. the employment increase of professional and business services in the manufacturing sector holding payroll steady despite reactivity slowing. this is all they needed as the perfect excuse to run dow jones industrial average briefly topping 15,000 going back and forth for the first time before settling at the close at 14,973. another record close of a triple digit gain with its 15th record close for the dow this year it is now up 14% on the year. the s&p 500 rises today also setting the all-time record high while at 1614. the second record in as many days and eighth record this year the is in peak at the threshold for the first time in its history now up over 13 percent so far this year with the nasdaq got 30 points this year the oriented index at the hig

nate frieman hit an rbi single and jed lowrie and seth smith each true bases loaded walk is all on one for the 10th game in 11 games to move seven games above 0.500. >> the ride is over for the sharks. justin williams scored two goals in the second period, and the kings the best of the western conference finals with a 2-1 victory over the sharks in game 7 last night. jonathan quick made 25 saves as the defending stanley cup champions finished off is agonizingly even series with their 14th consecutive home victory over the past two months, including seven straight in the postseason. the home team won all seven games in a thrilling all california series, and the fifth seeded king's belly roberto has the best victory in the first potential elimination game in the last two years. banteti netti stopped at 16 shots, and sand boils or early in the third period for the sharks will fell just short of their third trip to the conference final in four years. >> fog should be fairly minimal this morning. we will talk about the heat wave coming this way. the time now is 408. [ man ] get the 20 piece

yoenis cespedes hit an rbi triple in first is in his career best hitting streak to 11 games, jed lowriedded an rbi double as the a's moved a season best eight games above 0.500 the won their 11th time in 12 games. hunter pence , the second straight game and brett pill also connected for san francisco. >> good morning everyone and welcome back to the kron 4 morning news for those of you heading to the bay bridge series. it is a day game at 1245. the giant for the a's. expect warm conditions. mid to upper 60s at the ballpark. plenty of sunshine. >> you will have to contend with when approaching on the west at 40 mi. an hour. we have significant changes in your extended forecast that we push in closer to the weekend. full details and your 7 day coming thank you erica. coming up on the kron 4 morning news a new span of the bay bridge continues to face problems and a more merging. we will tell you about it and live report. the were following developing new out san mateo work crews are ballot alarm fire this morning will bring you the latest in a live report there is well. and warm weather is

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lowry says everybody knowses that nikola would not be in jail if he did not produce a video lamb pooninged. he says the paxi in the cover up who is serving a sentence that, quote, never will come about if he hadn't offended the wrong people. for more let's go to "red eye" national security correspondent. that's an adorable dog, dana. >> jasper can do that. >> i will see it before i believe it. is he a political prisoner? >> it happened on a friday night. so the attacks on september 11th happened on a tuesday, wednesday, thursday and then said oh my gosh, we are in the middle of an election. we have susan rice, the am was deer going on the shows on sunday. and if you look at the time line in the evidence, you can see that the cia sends over what they think happened and that completely changes to come up with a video that no one on the ground said was possible. on that saturday morning they sent an e-mail. i was sick, but first of all he is an american citizen. remember in denmark when the cartoonist made the prophet mohamed and there were riots in the street. what they said was knock it o

lou: good evening thank you for joining us sam lowry rothmans so another record-breaking day on wallent rate dropping to the lowest point* in over two years. the jobless rate dropping at 7.5% the labor department reports when hundred 65,000 jobs added to the u.s. payroll last month beating expectations. the employment increase of professional and business services in the manufacturing sector holding payroll steady despite reactivity slowing. this is all they needed as the perfect excuse to run dow jones industrial average

it was this same thing that lowry pope had indicated.i met with the principal deputy assistant secretary for human resources and i talked to him about what options might be available to me. basically, the answer was that i -- that it would have to go through the formal, normal bidding process for assignments and persuade someone that i should be hired. then the conversation with deputy secretary burns was centered around discussions i had had with the leadership of our embassy in mexico city at a political section job which would be a very good job. supportthat he would that but i had to go through the process. it is a very long process. that position is at a higher grade it. i understand there is protocol's but does that strike you as an unusual with someone of your backgroun =d? >> i was surprised that i was having to go through the process, the normal process. >> especially when the ambassador in mexico city had talked to secretary burns a about bringing the on as his political counselor. >> i heard my colleagues on the other side of

. >>> plus "the new york times" annie lowrie weighs in on income disparity and plans to end poverty aroundrst and second amendment conspiracy theories, judicial activism, accusations and revisionist civil war histories. the nra has cast a wide net and it did so at its annual convention. we'll discuss it when "now" starts in a mere 180 seconds. an allstate customer or not. all you have to do is call. [ female announcer ] call and sign up for good hands roadside assistance today. [ dennis ] are you in good hands? a body at rest tends to stay at rest... while a body in motion tends to stay in motion. staying active can actually ease arthritis symptoms. but if you have arthritis, staying active can be difficult. prescription celebrex can help relieve arthritis pain so your body can stay in motion. because just one 200mg celebrex a day can provide 24 hour relief for many with arthritis pain and inflammation. plus, in clinical studies, celebrex is proven to improve daily physical function so moving is easier. celebrex can be taken with or without food. and it's not a narcotic. you and your docto

. >>> play of the day in baseball, toronto's brett lowry makes a diving stop and while on his knees hereis going to fire to second for an impressive double play. they are playing the red sox. from the knees over to second to first an impressive double play as they beat the red sox last night 9-7. your play of the day. >> very good. >>> 5:25 now. for the first time we're hearing from the man carjacked by the boston bombing suspect. how he helped end the terror just a moment a little girl's frightening encounter, could it be connected to the murder of leila fowler? the police investigating. coming up. >> reporter: winds whipping around wildfires in the north bay and you can smell smoke all over the bay area. we'll have the latest coming up. we've made major advancements in reducing the incidents of broken bones in seniors. we've received recognition for getting hypertension under control for over 80% of our members. we've made significant advances in asthma, immunization and maternity care. and j.d. power and associates ranked us highest in member satisfaction among health plans in califor

toronto bluejay brett lowry making a diving stop at third while still on his knees he will go to seconde. and then over to first base and there you go. an impressive double play. the jays won at home against the boston red sox, 9-7 thanks in part to the play of the day. >> you know, you taught me last year what a double play is. >> we have to get you out [ laughter ] >>> a better deal? why the cost for the 49er stadium is dropping, coming up. >> a deadly plane crash with americans on board and dramatic new video shows all when it went wrong. it's all coming up. >> reporter: and several wildfires burning right now in the north bay. you could smell the smoke as far south as san francisco. how firefighters are attacking the fires coming up next. ,,,, Ñáçwçñ >>> his actions were very bizarre. >> there could be a new lead in the case of an 8-year-old girl found stabbed to death in her home in the foothills. >> investigators want to know if it could have been this man. >> there's no good-byes. >> several fires are sending smoke across the bay area. >> 200 acres burning. the wind has been real

national review editor, rich lowrie sums up the inherent problem in holder's assignment. what eric holder has done is so troubling to everyone, including eric holder that president obama has ordered a review of the poli policy. eric holder has a tight july 12 deadline to report back to eric holder. let's hope he can manage to be fair to air holder. joining me today, the "new yorke yorker"'s rick hertzberg, chris hayes, former dnc communications director and msnbc host karen finney and washington bureau chief of the huff huff, ryan grimm and joining us from nbc news, is national investigative correspondent, michael isikoff. michael, let's begin with what is happening here. the question, which i think remains unanswered, which is eric holder the right man to be running this doj investigation. >> well, first of all, investigation may not be the right word here, what they're doing is reviewing the guidelines to see whether they need to be be updated or revised in light of all the disclosures. it's not as though there's an allegation of the violation of the law. on the other h

sam and ben, see you on monday when i'm joined by ryan grimm, joy reid, "the new york times" annie lowryer, lisa loeb. until then, follow us on twitter. "andrea mitchell reports" is coming up next. >>> your weekend forecast, still looks cool and chilly. especially around kansas city and st. louis, starting today, moving into the southeast. you notice the forecast not going to change much over the next three days. still kind of cloudy and cool in the midwest. very wet in florida today into saturday. by the time we get to sunday, it looks like we're going to start to warm up in areas that just saw the crazy snow. no. there was that fuzzy stuff on the gouda. [ both ] ugh! when it came to our plants... we were so confused. how much is too much water? too little? until we got miracle-gro moisture control. it does what basic soils don't by absorbing more water, so it's there when plants need it. yeah, they're bigger and more beautiful. guaranteed. in pots. in the ground. in a ukulele. are you kidding me? that was my idea. with the right soil... everyone grows with miracle-gro. with the right s

joining me, "boston globe" report he wesley lowrie.an you tell us about any information on how this was resolved, where to place tsarnaev's remains. >> thanks for having me. details are just trickling out. i'm still here outside the funeral home where tamerlan tsarnaev's body has been held, it would have been seven days today. what i'm hearing from the funeral home, the body was moved late last night in a very quiet, we were camped out here. no police escort. moved quietly through what is still at this point an undisclosed location. it had been approved by the uncle, ruslan starni. the police have confirmed the body is no longer in the city or in the state of massachusetts. so right now there are more questions than answers about where tamerlan tsarnaev's body is, where it was buried. if it was entombed versus in the ground. what we know right now is that the body seemingly has been, has found its final refgt place. >> thank you very much for that latest information. we'll probably learn more details and maybe even more on the individu

nate fdrieman hit a rbi single that led jed lowrie and assessment the strong base load was 01 for thegames above 0.500. the first pitch is at 715 tonight. >> the " year-old martinez will injured and the boston marathon bombings last month dropped a ceremonial first pitch is last night's game between the a's and giants at o dot co . aaron hern through the first is to brandon moss is favorite baseball team is the a's. before the game he was a weed all players and get many autographs and even during his hospital stay in boston the a's came to visit him at his hospital. his parents a all this love and support from the a's is helping him is recovering. >> he is making great progress in his recovery, yesterday was the first day her walk without his crutches. the dow down one under 21 points. piting thousand 287 is the numbers. we will be back with more on living on cloud nine with that u-verse wireless receiver. you see in my day, when my mom was repainting the house, you couldn't just set up a tv in the basement. i mean, come on! nope. we could only watch tv in the rooms that had a tv outl

--the moisture or are tracking has pushed its way wealth lowry's.ssure will build over head and gradually warmer weather. >> right now it is a cool start grabbed a jacket heading to work or school. napa 48. 52 in fairfield. >> bid 54 oakland hayward 54 in redwood city. >> i mentioned it will be warmer into the afternoon. a full look at the numbers coming up in just a couple of minutes. james. >> thank you erica. >> did not let the habit fool you. police in colombia say these are not nuns, they are suspected drug smugglers. the three women were card saturday after writing an airport on colombia's caribbean island of san andreas on the capital city of bogota. police said the woman thought the disguise with their the research. security got their habits were suspicious and they were acting as a little too nervous. police say each woman was searched and found about 4 1/2 pounds of cocaine tapes to their bodies. there were arrested. 427 we will be back with your top stores in just a minute. a live look outside the shot of san francisco as seen from our ja

. -- very lowry row ratio of employment to population. gdp growth has exceeded now where we were before the crisis, but we are still well below the trend of growth. that being said, i was struck at the latest meetings of the imf in washington recently when the imf economists were talking about a three speed local recovery by which they meant the fastest growth still taking place in some of the emerging markets like china. but the united states now breaking away to some extent from the pack, notably from europe and japan, and we have had better performance. in the case of europe, it was about less than four years ago that the u.s. and the euro area had the same unemployment rate. today, our unemployment is 7.5, and the euro is above 12. so we have done better than other countries for a variety of reasons. not any single factor. but we are moving in the right direction. i do not think we could be as satisfied given where the labor market is and given that we still have unused capacity. >> you caution in your statement that too much restrain