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let's go to martha raddatz in washington. martha, we have both spent time imbedded with the military in war zones overseas what's struck me is that many times you see the middle aged commanders who have the job of trying to motivate very young people to go out and risk their lives for this country. in that spirit, is what the commander did on those videotapes at all defense sn snblable? >> reporter: well, listen, dan, there's a lot of raunchy humor out there, and you know there is, when you're imbedded. but he was the second in command of that ship. and you talk a lot about command climate. that's the heart of command climate. the best comparison i have is a parenting comparison. parents aren't trying to be the best friends of their children. they are the parent. and in this situation, he was the parent. he sets the tone. he tells those underneath him what is appropriate. those who are working for him, what is appropriate in a situation like that. >> is it possible that other senior people, this gentleman's bosses, for exampl

>> and bitten by a bulldog, martha stewart is rushed to the hospital. u >>> when traditional medicine is not enough, and where hundreds of bay state pet owners are turning for a new chance. >> and is this the new ipad two? if it is,s something is missing. >> it is sheer vandalism. >>> and cutting the cord that keeps the east bacon nexted. police are looking for vandals and sending hundreds of customers into a communications blackout. i'm jessica gary. >> and i'm tom sinkovitz. and this time it is not at&t's fault. thousands of the customers are dealing with a vandalism that is causing problems. we have more on what is going onb, and this is going to be very dangerous, tina? >> well, tom, at&t says finding the vandalism is easy. but frustrated customers call and say they don't have services and when technicians go out to find the junction boxes they are finding this, cut copper wire. >> it was a few days ago and we were without service. >> reporter: jeanette houston is one of hundreds of at&t customers who have experienced a recent communication blackout

thank you, martha raddatz. reporting in tonight. >>> and after that long election, tonight it is happening. the republicans are coming to washington to take control of the house in two days. and they have just announced their very first vote will be an effort to repeal president obama's health care reform. john karl reports in tonight. so, john, is it going to happen? can they do it? >> reporter: well, diane, it's going to be virtually impossible for them to repeal the entire bill. but many of these new republicans won election by promising to repeal health care reform, so there's little doubt about how they will vote on this, even if they are just today getting a first look at their new offices. it's moving day for the new congress. we asked several of them to document their journeys to washington. republican frank ginta bid farewell to his family in new hampshire. paul gosarr, dentist and soon to be congressman, shot this video. of his kids loading up the car in flagstaff, arizona. >> it's freezing. >> white

poor martha. and so the dog was scared. she's okay now. she actually called police to ask for a ride, but she's martha stewart. she remembered she had a driver on stand-by. he got her to the hospital. but apparently be careful if you're out there if you're whispering good-bye to your dog. they may buck up on you a little bit. rest that lip, martha. >> i feel bad for her. you're mean. >> i'm not -- i'm not laughing. it's a little funny. >>> okay. so have you been following the drama going on between camille grammar and her husband, kelsey? it's so public. on wednesday she's doing an interview with howard stern. she basically implies that he's a cross-dresser. it comes like this. this is the quote. he likes being with women but there's something between us that just didn't click. so then robin quiver says, what's the reason? he likes to dress like a woman? and she says, i'm not saying it. i'm not saying it. well, in response to all of this, kelsey has remained tight-lipped. take a listen to kelsey on "david letterman." >> kate is my new girl

martha, thanks very much. >> we turn to politics tonight. with the new year here, a new wave headed to washington. as so many tea party members arrive, the beginning of one era, the end of another. for the first time since 1947, there will be no kennedys in washington. >> the sun has set on the kennedy era. when congress reconvened, it will be the first time in 64 years there has not been a kennedy in office. >> i think it's sad. where think we need a kennedy. >> the last cepied, patrick, congressman from rhode island, has left the building. >> i will not be a candidate for re-election. >> his father, edwrtd kennedy, died in 2009. the new frontier on capitol hill has a distinctly republican flavor. replacing the kennedys as the only father/son team on the hill, ron paul and rahm paul. >> here, ted kennedy's office suite, a view of the capital that went to the man who won his massachusetts senate seat, republican scott brown, but there wasn't much chance a junior senator was going to hold on to that prime real estate for long. now he's gettin

>> martha raddatz reporting tonight. thank you, martha. >>> and we want to take you down to australia, where an area the size of texas has become a real-life version of the movie "waterworld." after nearly a week of devastating rain and the center of a small town, 75,000 strong, holding out, it is now trapped, surrounded by a new threat -- snakes, crocodiles. here's the bbc's nick bryant in rockhampton tonight. >> reporter: this is the day rockhampton has been bracing itself for. where 150 houses are already under water. police are urging locals trying to flee or reach their homes to stay out of the murky flood waters. they've already claimed ten lives since the tropical rains first came in november. they're also riddled with deadly snakes and even crocodiles. it's a very australian flood. >> what can you do? it's not like you can't just put your hand up and stop it. it's just going to come. >> reporter: this should be the last stop before the surging flood waters reach the ocean, but it's thought rockhampton could be un

martha raddatz, abc news, washington. >> and martha spent so much time in those enflamed regions. >>> also tonight, nelson mandela, the 92-year-old icon of the fight for equality and then forgiveness in south africa, is in a johannesburg hospital with a collapsed lung. his family is gathered in his hospital room and outside the hospital, a sea of journalists. mandela's foundation says he's undergoing routine tests, is in no danger and is in good spirits. >>> and now, a brian ross investigation that is prompting congressional action. he brings us the story of female volunteers for the peace corps working overseas who say they were raped or sexually assaulted over the past decade. 1,000 of them coming forward. and brian ross is here now. i am staggered by that number, brian. 1,000? >> reporter: that's right. that is the number our invest grags found, more than 1,000 volunteers raped or sexually assaulted over the last decade, something the peace corps has worked hard to keep quiet. at the age of 23, jess smochek joined the peace corps out of a sense of idealism. >> i was, you know, goin

martha raddatz and sam donaldson.ericans are looking at what is going on in egypt and thinking, oh, my god. should we be afraid of what happens next? >> there is reason to be afraid and worry. if think if the egyptian people the egyptian ploitolitical formation, if they manage to get this country to safety the history does not have to hold. what i'm trying to say is, if you get a stable government in egypt, that somehow, some what changes the course of the country in a way that the egyptians have been clamoring for, other governments don't have to topple. they would have to readjust. i think that would be the best outcome that the region and the united states could hope for. >> that's the best case scenario. what is the worst? >> for us to assume we can master these events. beginning in the fall of 2001, when we easily toppled the taliban. march 2003, with when we easily toppled saddam hussein's regime. since those two events we have been learning the hard lesson, we've been taught it's easier to set in train events a

christiane amanpour is here, as well as martha raddatz. is this the dom knows falling, and what about the verbal pressure from the white house on mubarak tonight? >> reporter: well, i think they are stepping up the pressure. but they've been towing a very sort of fine line and basically saying, on all sides, to have restraint. and the people over there have been very upset about it. they think the united states should stand with the people and the tweets and the social media are coming in in huge blasts expressing disappointment with the united states, which is not good at this precise moment. the key is whether the army, which has been deployed, will fire on the people. right now, the army has been put into the streets, the police and security forces back and a senior egyptian official has told me tonight that he hopes that the people will respond well to the army and this will quiet the situation and get the people back into their houses. it doesn't look that that is likely to happen but that is going to be the key. will the army fire on

. >>> martha stewart tries to keep a stiff upper level. your early morning entertainment headlines are straight ahead. >>> plus, we'll tell you about a dad and his daughter with zebra in their genes. you're watching "early today." >>> welcome back. we started with the hawaiian island. yesterday heavy rain moved through, flash flooding happened. the pga tour event out this this week wansalled yesterday because of the weather. cloudy skies, chances of showers. not the heavy, heavy downpours like we did yesterday. as far as the rest of the west coast, here's your forecast. watching partly cloud toy mostly cloudy skies across all of the northwest. southern california, warmer spots as we go throughout the weekend. saturday in l.a., 82. phoenix at 72. great weather there. notice the wet weather continues in the northwest. it's really a split pattern here where you're gorgeous here at southern california. so enjoy it while it lasts. if you're watching on klir 6 in palm spring, california, a collection of monet, picasso and more. masters of impres

along with nearby islands martha's vineyard and nantucket, this area is known for its historic seaside charm -- the shingled houses with rooftop "widow's walks," where wives watched for the return of sailing ships, the kennedy family compound, quiet ponds, quaint stores, and beautiful beaches. it also has lots and lots of wind. and that steady, strong breeze is stirring up a heated controversy. a project called cape wind would put 130 giant turbines in the body of water called nantucket sound, between the cape and the islands. these images are created by the developer to show what the nation's first offshore wind farm would look like during the day. even miles out to sea, the turbines would still be visible from the shore, because they'd reach 440 feet above the water's surface. that's much taller than the statue of liberty. >> you're going to see a power plant. you're basically going to see a huge stretch of 40-story buildings during the day, and at night you're going to have flashing lights going on for one second, off for two. you're essentially constructing a huge city skyline in t

does martha have a hip-hop ringtone? [laughter] >> play that funky music, white girl. [laughter] >> can we talk about that? >> do you still have a hip-hop ringtone? >> i do not. i lost that hip-hop ringtone two seconds after that press conference. >> why? >> that's what you get for having your teenager son with your phone. it was white and dirty, and i asked my son to make my phone ring louder. i wasn't hearing it and i should have it off in the briefing. but that's what he put on it. you know women grab for their purses and can't find the phone. >> you said years ago that you weren't worried about what was going on the news and what has happened as abc in four years? >> we have had 25% of our staff cut. and you have that in the news business all over. it's heart breaking. and it is also reality. and the truth is as we downsize, i think we still have a very strong, strong news division. i truly do, and not just saying that because i am an employee of abc. you do the best you can. the reality is that people don't like to say the news is a business. but it is a business.

the pearl project has just released its findings about the killing and martha raddatz spoke with the interns who insisted on answers. >> reporter: danny pearl was a young, wickedly smart reporter, about to be a father, when he was kidnapped in 2002. his beheading put on the internet by his captors for the world to see. there have been many investigations since and a hollywood movie, but nothing compares to this. 32 journalism students at georgetown university spent three and a half years uncovering the truth. >> it took waking up in the middle of the night to make these phone calls to pakistan. we slept on the floor at the office, in the classroom and in our professor's office. >> i learned the true definition of a cold call. >> reporter: khalid shaikh mohammed, the master mind of the 9/11 attacks, had confessed to slitting danny pearl's throat, but only after he had been waterboarded nearly 200 times, raising questions about whether he had told the truth. the students kept probing. the first break came at a secret meeting in a parking garage. a source gave them high quality video of

martha raddatz has the latest developments. >> reporter: pete captain owen p. honors, top gun pilot, naval academy graduate, and one of a few that commanded an aircraft carrier. but not anymore. this is captain honors on the videos he broadcast for his 6,000 sailors, as part of movie night in 2006 and '07. jokingly revealing sexually suggestive staged scenes between two women and two men. and that is not the half of it. the captain fakes a sexual scene with himself. lets loose a series of "f" words. >> you [ bleep ]. [ bleep ]. >> reporter: and in this scene, where he plays all three characters, including the surface warfare officer or s.w.o., he repeatedly uses gay slurs. >> that position as a director representative of the commanding officer to be using those words, making jokes, such as those, or participating in anything like that. >> reporter: the virginia pilot newspaper, which obtained "the enterprise" video said that sailors who complained at the time were simply brushed off. >> i've had several complaints about inappropriate material. >> reporter: and

i'm martha hoffman. i'm a homeowner on wall street near the hanc recycling center and nursery. the center is not the cause of camping in the park and not the cause of crime in the park and it's a very safe place. i have resided by hanc recycling center for years. it's popular, successful environmental center, outstanding operation and it should continue. i recycle there to support neighborhood green jobs, volunteers and because the center gives regular grants to the community, including at one time helping to restore the carousel. rec and park has handled this effort in a really dishonest, disrespectful way and i appeal to you commissioners to put the brakes on this effort and to work towards the process to maintain the center improved at its location. >> next speaker please. >> good evening. i work with building resources in support of hanc. opposed to your motion. i am all in favor of garden centers. i would like to see gary boulevard ripped end to end and planted with trees but i don't think i will get it. what i would like is honesty. what this policy boils down to is the l

(aaron) my mom...and i actually watch martha stewart too... ...my mom saw you on martha stewart, andut you, and then i watched the clip. (aaron) i just thought it was so interesting. ♪ (nathan) i grew up in michigan and oklahoma. i was a very shy, very inward kind of person. i went to school for art because i didn't know what else to go for. [laughs] because i hated math, i wasn't any good at science... i was home-schooled through high school, so i didn't have a guidance counselor or anything, so i didn't know what to do. so i went to art school in california...college. and then my third year of college i came out to new york. (aaron) were there any fears for you, moving from the midwest to california? well, midwest to california wasn't a huge deal because i kind of had my parents' blessing. when i decided to move from my christian school in california to my very liberal school in new york, i had no support from my parents. i had no support from family. everyone looked at me kind of like i was crazy. like, "how the heck can you go to new york city and think that you're going to make

. >> martha raddatz explains why the current middle east chaos is sounding alarm bells here at home. >> reporter: why is egypt so important? listen to the president. >> you know, egypt's been an ally of ours on a lot of critical issues. >> reporter: issues like the middle east peace process. and fighting terrorism. >> if the egyptian government falls, then sort of all bets are off throughout the region. >> reporter: but it is not just tunisia and egypt that have americans' attention. the protests have even spread across the water, through the deserts, to yemen. talk about alarm bells. thousands of protesters are looking to oust yemen's president. why is yemen important? the list is long and frightening. a training ground for al qaeda, the home of anwar al awlaki, a terror leader more dangerous than osama bin laden. tied to the christmas day and times square bombing pep and calling for more attacks. if the yemeni government falls, no one will be there to challenge the terrorists. so, while protests may be cause for cheering in some places, in others, these scenes should make america v

martha raddatz has details. ickedly smart reporter, was a about to be a father, when he was kidnapped in 2002. his beheading put on the internet by his captors for the world to see. there have been many investigations since and a hollywood movie. but nothing compares to this. 32 journalism students at georgetown university spent 3 1/2 years uncovering the truth. >> it took waking up in the middle of the night to make these phone calls to pakistan. >> reporter: khalid shaikh mohammed, the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, had confessed to slitting danny pearl's throat. but only after he had been waterboarded nearly 200 times, raising questions about whether he had told the truth. the students k the first break came at a secret meeting in a parking garage. a source gave them high-quality video of the murder. and that's when they saw the detail in the killer's hand. >> the process is called vein matching. it's a biometric way of identifying people. >> reporter: the students found a match. they learned that the fbi ha

martha. >> thank you. good evening. i was born in providence, rhode island. when i was around six years old my parents moved from a white neighborhood that was fairly indifferent to our prejudiced to one that was downright hostile. the reason for the move was that my father and optometrist, was losing his sight. my parents decided to close his office and bought a funeral parlor that allowed them to rent out the upstairs living quarters and keep an office at the front of the house and tell my father could no longer practice. our new neighbor, a stone's throw from the window. the local motorcycle game regularly congregated at the front of our house. once someone tried to set the house on fire. another time a father and i were told at gunpoint to leave the area. i spent most of my school years in all white settings experiencing that combination of petty meanness, isolation, being ignored and excluded. it came with what we then called representing the race. i could never be sure a teacher would recognize by upheld hand or that my classmates might resort to the in

we believe that an exercised dog is a happy dog, a healthy dog. >> reporter: wonderful, martha.joining us, grace and space thanks for joining us as well and this report is expected to come out within the next 24 hours. it's a 2400 page report so it's going to be a lot for people like martha to pore through on behalf of folks like grace. >> and space. >> and thank you, anne makovec in san francisco. >> how cute. >>> time now 6:36. >>> well, not good for dog lovers, scattered showers today. let's go over to tracy with a check of our forecast. >> that's the worst, your dog goes out walking and all wet and come back in the house and you see all their little paw prints all over the house. forecast for this morning, scattered rain showers from guerneville through invernes and now moving into parts of the east bay toward concord, not heavy rainfall, president widespread -- not widespread but scattered showers expected for the morning. your forecast for this morning because of the clouds and chance of showers we do have delays on arrivals at sfo around one hour. out the door this mornin

and i'm going to ask martha because she is representing the networks. i worked for a couple weeks and wrote an article from there and for the last two years, when you watch nbc news or abc news, and your stuff is much better than some of your competitors, richard specifically is pretty -- but it is just not representative of what afghanistan is. and all i see when i watch the news is i see either women getting victimized, which is true, or i see men that are taliban and have a gun and are going to abuse the women. there's never any reality of these afghan men that are just normal like us. >> so what's the question? . >> my question is, at what point does that get cut off? i don't think ire going to these countries that you're saying i'm just going to show the tale ban or women. so when does it get cut off, when does it get editted? who is responsible for that? and how do you get the message of the reality? >> one of the things that's a problem with afghanistan is the country is really suffering from war fatigue. and -- >> our country. >> our country is

.-- martha minjares nos explica como funcionaÍa.a de demora, hoy "gavin newsom" finalmente asumÓ el puesto de vice gobernador de california.---el ahora ex- alcalde de san francisco fue juramentado por su propio padre, el juez "william newsom", durante una ceremonia en la Ámara del senado estatal en sacramento.---en su discurso inaugural, "newsom" dijo que se enfocaÁ en crear empleos y oportunidades de negocios para las empresas. ---"newsom" posterÓ su inauguracÓn por una semana mientras la junta de supervisores debaÍa quién lo reemplazaÁ como alcalde de san francisco. --el presunto multihomicida de tucson, arizona compareció este lunes ante un juez tras la masacre del sábado que dejó a 6 personas muertas. --"jared loughner" de 22 aÑos, aparecÓ en corte con la cabeza rapada.--el sospechoso enfrenta numerosos cargos federales, incluyendo intento de homicidio contra un congresista y dos cargos por asesinato de un empleado federal.--el supuesto pistolero, que está detenido sin derecho a fianza, es representado por el mismo abogado que d

martha raddatz has been on top of this since she's on washington with the latest. good morning, martha. >> reporter: good morning, robin. the navy will make it official today. but abc news has confirmed that as of now, these videos that the navy itself says are clearly inappropriate, has cost the captain his job. when "the uss enterprise," deploys to the middle east in a few weeks, capital owner honors will almost certainly not be on it. the navy's top brass temporarily relieved him of command, while the investigation into those lewd videos, he made continues. two new clips just leaked to "the virginian pilot" newspaper, show more of the crude and offensive behavior, honors showcased while the weekly movie night in 2006 and 2007. >> let's ask the check mates about being gay. that's not a good idea. >> reporter: there's gay innuendo video, toilet humor, and broadcast to crew members on active duty in war zones. >> we're getting ready for combat operations, it's hot. it's [ bleep ] hot. >> we're getting close to hell. >> reporter: and while many on the crew found the

martha raddatz is following it from washington.orter: good morning, juju. the videos are shocking to some of the most seasoned officers. the reason, the videos star a navy captain who is now the commander of the "uss enterprise." the videos were made as a joke, part of movie night aboard the aircraft carrier in 2006 and 2007 when captain owen honors was number two in command. they contain sexually suggests tiff scenes between two women and two men and numerous gay slurs. the navy was shown the videos after being leaked to a "virigian pilot" newspaper. the navy has launched an investigation and called captain honors' actions clear inappropriate. if he lost command of the "the enterprise" which is scheduled to deploy in just a few weeks, juju? >> martha, thanks. >>> overseas, there's word that two key al qaeda commanders have been killed in drone strikes in northwest pakistan. stepped-up attacks in recent months have targeted more than a dozen blamed at targeting attack necessary the region and the west. >>> at least ten deaths are b

everybody on that committee for their great work, the great martha colon as well, -- cohen, the event planner, we are grateful to you. the sailing community, disability community, youth sailing community that has committed themselves, all the federal and state partners, the environmental community for their partnership to fast track the ceqa process. all the folks in sacramento. now i can hold them accountable. folks in the media that were fair-minded about this, and also good critics wonder need to be tougher questions asked. we appreciate your support as well. i know i forgot others but this has gone on too long. again, i just want to thank all of those that i have left out. here are my final thoughts. we will know by friday whether or not san francisco has secured this bid. we do not believe there is a better city for racing in the world. we talk about a natural amphitheater. valencia is wonderful, but the race is four miles off the coast. in san francisco, you cannot miss it. we will be 40, 50 feet off of our shoreline. you have christie field, fort mason, the golden gate bridge,

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martha raddatz reports now from yemen. >> reporter: she is so tiny, so young.emarkable tale of courage and resilience. nujood ali was a child bride. you were married when you're 9. tell me about that. how that happened. >> translator: i came back from school. i was playing outside with kids. and my father called me and told me i was getting married. >> reporter: getting married to a delivery man 20 years her senior. that night she was introduced to him the first time at his family home, not knowing what would come next. >> translator: there was a party there. by the end of the night, everybody started going home. and i told them i would like to go home. and they said no. your father has gotten you married, you cannot go to your house again. >> reporter: nor was she allowed to return to her second grade class. but that wasn't the worst of it. >> translator: i used to cry and weep. but no one would help me. not even his mother. and his sisters. whenever i wanted to go out, they sent me back to the house and sometimes beat me up. >> reporter: so did her husband. e

martha helps wit early reading and larger classes some with up to 30 kids will have an impact on students. >> not getting as much attention from the teacher and kindergarten is critical to begin early reading skills. with more children they are not going to get as much small group attention. >> according to califoia watch the state has spent $23 billion in the past 14 years in the small class program. in a matter of two years the program has crumbled in most school districts. >> california watch reporter lewis freedberg poured over the data. >> we are making poli based on how much money they're not whether it's good or bad policy for the children. >> for most, the economic picture lessen when the stimulus money ran on out. conference teache were laid off. he says they are challenging times for educators. now you have a situation where teache are under enormous pressure to haveheir kids do better on the battery of tests that kids get every year and sometimes more frequently tha that and more kids to handle in their classes and often fewer resources and fewer intervention specialists, readi

our martha raddatz breaks it down for us. >>> and later in the show, we wrap up our big 19th birthdays. >> this is the best recipe i've seen for it. i'm not just saying that because i like the chef. this is a real red velvet, not a cake that's been dyed red with buttercream. >> high praise. >>> but we begin with all the snow that is in the northeast. >> the snow is blamed for at least seven deaths, including seven people who were literally struck and killed by those snowplows out there. >> new york city got enough snow to put it over the top for the snowiest january ever and piled up a foot high in new england. jeremy hubbard is in boston this morning. good morning, jeremy. >> reporter: good morning. it is proving to be daunting and dangerous dealing with all this snow. one of the big problems in the northeast now, roof collapse. there was a garage near boston where a roof collapsed under the weight of 3 1/2 feet of snow. it smashed down on a car where two men were sitting inside. they were trapped for several hours. police had to set them free. reporters talked to them at the hospita

we have frank, a board member, a captain of the lovely martha. we have craig, the general manager of the sheraton hotel. lynn is our community representative on the board. we have the vice president of the board. david harrison is on our board. he is working closely with the civic center cbd. jay edwards is on our board and chairs our sustainability committee. i have one other colleague, troy campbell. he works with me every day on fisherman's wharf. i thought i would share with you the boundaries of the wharf. it runs all the way down on the land aside, the green portion of the diagram. the purple section as tucker portside. -- purple section is the portside. we work very closely with the community associations. we have 11 active members on the committee. we added three more last year. the new committees we added, one of the senate -- one of them was the sustainability committee. that was working to make sure the wharf is sustainable and we share the best practices among the businesses on the wharf as part of that. we also added a community deve

so my advice to martha is small claims court in indiana.better business bureau was unable to get a response, as well. >> and this guy is playing games and we're not going to take that kind of bribe. it's unethical and no assurance that he'll ever keep his promise anyway. >> this also means you're not safe from peter greenberg. >> but look at the response we got. he tried to buy her off in the event that we wouldn't question on the air. well, we're on the air. >> there you goi. always solving our problems and helping to prevent a few, as well. thanks. >>> still ahead, the world swooned when james blunt sang "you're beautiful" and he'll sing here for us. honey...? [ mom ] yes. honey, i can't find my internet cord. oh, i'll borrow hailey's. you're downloading movies. fast! from here? where is her cord?! we switched to at&t high speed internet and got wireless access. no more cords. wireless, okay, honestly, can i just get a cord, please? dad, the cord's invisible. [ female announcer ] for a limited time, call to get high speed internet for jus

it also head to martha stewart's conviction.ked to him about his race to develop the treatments of the future with his new venture, cadman pharmaceuticals. >> it's a company that has been in the works for a while now. it is what i think is going to be the 21st century global company. and it takes off from where i left imclone two years ago. but i believe it looks as if industry in a way that no one else does. building a biotech company, building a biopharmaceutical company is not easy these days. we're trying to put together a mosaic that has the commercial arm generating revenues and profits. we did that with the acquisition of a company called three rivers pharmaceuticals a few months ago. it will be for us a cash-generating machine so that we don't have to go to the markets to constantly raise money for drug development. >> so this is interesting, because you say it's basically picking up where you left off at imclone. urbatox obviously was a cancer drug. tell me what you're so excited for. >> we have learned that in cancer,

[lists events] martha is on the team and i have known her since 1974. she is one element of what i consider to be an all-star lineup. did i understand that there might be an amendment to this narrow focus on the northern waterfront? was that something we were going to do before the presentation? >> the president and i were just talking about that. supervisor mirkarimi: we are bundling any modifications and amendments on the northern waterfront. pretty soon after the formal presentation begins. is that all? very good. again, we have a well structured hearing with a number of people that we would like to bring out. first of like to start with the office of economic workforce development. please help us to start this process with a number of representatives from city family. we will do our best to get to the most salient points and then we will open it up for public comment, which will obviously be a sizable audience. >> good afternoon, supervisors. just as an outline i will ask my colleagues to come give the presentation on where we are before you discuss

this morning on "martha on today" nothing puts the festive in birthdays like decorations and martha hasck. are you okay? >> i'm just fine. >> you had a mishap with one of your dogs. >> i did. francesca head-butted me. i was saying good-bye and she reared up. >> right in the lip. nine stitches. they took good care of me at northern westchester in the snowstorm. >> where is she living now? >> just where she always did. >> she's a beautiful rug in the living room now. >> i blogged the whole thing. >> you didn't even hear what she said and it was better that you didn't. >> you have hollywood lips now. kissable. >> yes, darling. >> let's celebrate. >> we are celebrating birthdays. you're celebrating at "today" your 60th birthday. we are celebrating the 20th. we did a party in the january issue of the magazine. the templates for the beautiful bold numbers are on our website at marthastewart.com. but we made you a 60th birthday cake. >> feels like it. >> each number is two sheet pans of cake. you use this as your cutout. >> oh, okay. >> cover it with a nice buttercream and two pounds of m & ms

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the home improvement change added several products from the martha stewart line. women account for half of home depot's sales. it is really the smaller stuff, the smaller products spring up their banking. >> fair enough. >> reporter: i am a shopper there. i have a little wd-40 pen. >> your first purchase. very good. nicole lapin, thank you much. >>> if it can happen to the kingpin of social media, then the rest of us should be weary. chris crackum tells us what to do. >> reporter: facebook's owner has exposed a scary reality on their social website. >> the bad guys are going to social websites and trying old tricks on new platforms. >> reporter: platforms like twitter and facebook are especially vulnerable in wi-fi environments to a hacking technique called sidejacking. >> that means if you are sitting in a public wireless hot spot like in the airport or coffee shot, somebody can just grab your user credentials for a site like facebook out of the clear sky. >> reporter: so the top advice from experts, don't go to social sites using public wi-fi. or if you do, make

and they, among other things, he was this extraordinary opportunity for writers to go to martha, texas, for weeks at a time to write if they're working on a book, to study or to read if they're not in the middle of a book, to think about their next book, plan and get away from their day-to-day work. so i'm greatly looking forward to that. >> host: what is olive branch press which published the primers? >> guest: olive branch press is the, what would i call it, the political arm of interleague books which is the publishing company in, now in northampton, massachusetts. and they publish a huge amount of work from politics of the middle east, a lot on the palestinian/israeli conflict, a lot on arab churl -- culture. cookbooks, artbooks, great fiction and translating including the most comprehensive amount of fiction in translation in arabic in this country. published in english, many of them for the first time. the first sudanese book published in english. the first yemeni novel published in english was published by interlink, so i think these are -- it's a great, important contribution p

next to him is martha raddatz.think the title is senior foreign affairs correspondent of abc news. but the fact is she has been one of abc news' most distinguished reporters for many years. she has been a lot of that time going to places like iraq, afghanistan, and pakistan and doing the kind of journalism and reporting that david halberstam representative loved. she has won awards. one of the ones that she won that as suspect means a lot to her is one in the name of daniel pearl. daniel pearl was the "wall street journal" reporter who was kidnapped and executed and assassinated, murdered. he represented the danger and the complexity of the world that journalists who are in the most dangerous spaces, and martha has been the white has corresponded and senior foreign affairs correspondent for abc, as i said, but she has been all over the world and has done these -- the shoe leather kind of reporting that is at the heart of the spirit of david halberstam, i would say. next to me is stephen engelberg, a colleague from

martha stewart, there was a story this week, martha stewart, one of her own pets, you sneak up on petsn or a strange pet the wrong way, you can startle them and there can be a little bit of a mishap. >> that is exactly what happened with martha. her dog was falling asleep or dozing and she surprised the dog. the dog reared up and she got that nasty little cut on her lip. it is important not to surprise your animal. especially aging animals, because they just can't hear as well. it's also important to teach your children the correct way to approach an animal. by and large the largest portion of the population that gets bitten by dogs are boys ages 5 to 9. so you can guess why. they're loud, they're boisterous, they're at the dog's eye level and they exhibit inappropriate behavior. so it's important to teach your children proper etiquette around your dog as well as other dogs. >> i guess one takeaway for kids that are watching and they love pets, is it to just kind of gently go up to the dog and not be too excitable around it? >> i would say don't ever leave the child unsupervised. and t

mcconnell martha that's the former chief prosecutor may says he decided to walk out on his job because the u.s. military justice system it's hypocritical. my policy for two years had been we would not use any evidence of talking about waterboarding or any of the other enhanced interrogation techniques were building the cases independent of anything the detainees said while they were being tortured suddenly i knew officials appointed above me that said look president bush said we don't torture and if he said we don't then who are you to question the president so you should be using that information to prosecute these people and that's when i said enough's enough it's been a real disappointment for me with the obama administration you know he said in january of two thousand and nine within one year will close guantanamo that was two years ago so he needs some backbone as well to stand up to congress and tell him that he's the executive that is his decision and to wrap this problem up it's been nine years which is just far too long there are one hundred seventy three men act one ton of oh

. >> tonight, martha raddatz looks at the wars in iraq and afghanistan on a political, strategic, and personal >> this week on "newsmakers >> was there a moment when it sunk in that democrats were now in the minority? >> it has been sinking in pretty quickly since the election, but this week brought it home. republicans, on the very first day, had their speaker say they want openness, transparency, accountability and things should be done in a way where members can participate and offer amendments. then, the first bill they are bringing up will not have a day of hearings or no chance to offer amendments for change. and it will repeal the health care system. not take what is good and make changes they don't agree with, but repeal the whole thing. this is not serious. it is theater. the health care bill is a serious matter and to repeal it could be disrupted and tragic for a lot of people. >> what were you thinking during the symbolic moment of the big gavel being passed. >> i first thought is i was pleased by it. we do have a peaceful transition in this country and the american people

. >> do you agree, you of course are only panelist who has with on a reality show, martha stewart apprentice. >> i'm kidding, it was home. flashback. >> do you agree with her about the impact it is having on gender stereotypes? >> to some extent, i do. i don't sit by, i think people understand, i don't believe in ten years they're going to look at this have that impact because i think what does happen is people become desensitized it to. before they are going to have some -- larger cause-effect relationship. the thing with reality tv it promotes conflict. it promotes stereotypes. that' very real, the producers will tell you later, i had one of the worst episodes i did on "the apprentice" it was horrible episode because it was embarrassing, you couldn't quite get something to happen. all of us responsible but i was the head leader. and at the end of course i made it through for different reasons. i talked to the producer later, but it was good tv. i'm like, but it was wrong. you edited it incorrectly. but it was a good story. this is never about those candidates that are on those shows. and n