it was marvels of geology that made her face light up.r this reward, elliott was more than willing to supply them. in north america, beneath the great plains, fossil remains of marine creatures had been found. just imagine, 5,000 miles from the sea, at altitudes of 4,000 feet, they had found fossils of a sea creature, among them, the giant reptiles. had she heard tell of this and friendly fellow? you can look today at barack prince of an animal that has been extinct for millions of years that lived and feasted in these rocks were being formed on the floor of the seat. imagine the power that tumbled these rocks from the seabed and thrust them up so i. los angeles, where oil seeped to the surface, and its volatile elements evaporated, a vast leg of package was formed, and sheets of water gathered above it and the ancestors of the wolf came to drink and died, trapped in the swamp. no one could tell how long does oil had been leaking. among the skeleton they found while extracting the pitch were some belonging to the saber tooth tiger, anothe

the walt disney company is taking over marvel comics meaning mickey, snow white will join spiderman,he hulk and x- men. disney ceo says it was a no brainer. >> we did it because we saw marvel as an attractive company not just from a story perspective but a talent perspective. a company that was well run and a company with a great strategic fit for disney. great creativity and content. >> one analyst says owning marvel will help disney appeal to young men. >>> only one preseason game for the skins left. final cuts are looming. we have a leg up on the competition. dave feldman heads to training camp. >>> and bloggers are hitting the protest because ikea changed the font in the latest catalog. the swedish furniture chain says it is surprised by the backlash. ikea die hards are demanding the old font back. one petition is gathering thousands of signatures ♪ [ music ] ♪] >>> greetings. albert haynesworth missed the second consecutive practice what with what coach zorn is calling a stomach flu. more trouble having the lingering issue rogers is having with his calf. he is concerned that rog

the s&p off 8. >>> well, it is something to marvel at.t disney company saying is it's buying marvel entertainment, for get this, $4,000,000,234 cash and stock. under the deal, disney acquires ownership of action heroes such as spiderman, the incredible hulk and ironman. the deal is expected to wrap up by the end of the year. >>> fast food drive-throughs are everywhere. but now kfc says it's breaking ground on water. it's introducing what it says is the very first float- through. boaters go up alongside the kfc boat to order and get their meals. this company launched this service on lake michigan. >>> new rules when it comes to using credit cards. when the latest rules designed to protect you good into effect, and what it could mean to your credit limit. >>> and her name is associated with the acai berry. now after thousands have been scammed, oprah wants her name off the popular product. >>> hi, i'm jamie costello. we continue to help you during these tough economic times by inviting you to our website at abc2news.com to our financial sur

it still needs approval from marvel shareholders.ebook is changing privacy controls over the next year. designed to give users more control over the type of information that goes to applications like games and quizzes. right now users are asked whether there information can be accessed before an application is down loaded. in an uncertain economy, more people looking to put their money into something they can see and touch. investing in gold shot up 46% in the second half of this year. is it really good investment? >> this is minted by the u.s. government. >> the eagle is the most popular piece of gold on the market today, word about a thousand dollars and did have the prestige of being made in america. the price of the eagle is slightly higher than the second and third most popular pieces, the canadian maple leaf and the south african krugerrand. but they all have the same gold content. >> it has been steadily going up. recently there's been a lot of activity in the past two years. >> gold dealers keep one eye on the crowd looking t

it is a hand the 22 mm, it is absolutely marvelous. let's the web been captured berlin it is a weapon for the fortifications and so when they came back with such a weapon they have to abandon it. what happened here? you put some say and inside and one shall just blows of. the impression airfields and the aircraft russia has 20,000 but some of the fields were 2800 meters near the burden -- border sojourn and does not need to use them against the russian aircraft they do not use artillery when this type versus russian aircraft. it is the american army but i show you what happens in 1941 and you concentrate the army for a duck making us more vulnerable for an attack. you can see them but they lowered their ammunition but it would be a disaster. actually what happened in 1941 with the russian border, it was unbelievable concentration of russian army on the border. and one german. win adolph hitler came, stalin cannot move. seven army tour the german -- german border. if they just stopped how do take them out? make them all disabled? this i

walt disney is buying marvel entertainment for about $4 billion. the purchase brings a slew of well known film characters under the disney umbrella including spiedy, the x-man, captain america and the fantastic four. it's the biggest media deal for disney since it bought pixar animation studios back in 2006. it's also the first big media deal since the global financial crunch. analysts say it's another sign that confidence is returning to the marketplace. small that revival of big takeover activity by disney could not counter a 6% plunge in the market as wall street opened with a sharp sell-off. an hour into trading the dow fell nearly 100 points while the nasdaq lost 30 points. the market improved a bit over the next several hours on a better than expected reading on midwest business activity. but after the big august rally, profit-taking prevailed and stocks ended broadly lower. the dow industrial average closed off 47.92 at 9496.28. the nasdaq composite was off 19.71 ending at 2009.06. standard and poors 500 lost 8.31 at 1020.62. in the bond mar

disney also acquires marvel movie franchises such as spiderman and superman.ey would receive $30 per share as well as disney stock. not a bad deal for them. >> that is good. i was going to say young guys out there. but i didn't want to put him in a separate category. >> right. >> we're looking at a very nice pattern here. i also want to talk about a massive hurricane that might throw moisture into southern california. >> have a little positive influence there. >> just a little bit. as far as we're concerned. on a great little streak here. looking at temperatures below average through the week. here's your forecast for the next three days. spectacular tomorrow. mostly sunny, 78. beautiful on wednesday. mostly sunny in the 80s. and then 81 with partly cloudy skies on thursday. still a nice sketch and very cool at night. talking about 50s. tomorrow night, you may actually be in the 40s and the suburbs. all right, this is it for them and this is the eye of the storm. it's not a particularly large storm. but some kind of power pack that is beginning to move to the

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i assumed that the mavel -- marvel dms ettes had talked to them. that's what we did. got to talking to diane and the girls. so we got in the studio and they recorded and they were so perturbed -- i'll put it a nice way -- and while she was singing the song ♪ baby baby ♪ and it was in the wrong key. it was in the key of gladdy -- gladys. but her voice took on a whole new thing. it became sull terrorist she was so mad and so disgusted with having to be forced to sing this song. but it put out such a feeling, a sexy feeling, a style. and she became a starlet that night. and that sound, everybody started adapting it, the key, putting it down. but that attitude was the attitude that the song needed. and -- tavis: and now we all know the words of that song. >> yeah, and shot up through the charts. told two or three million copies. straight to number one. then we had consecutive number ones, 13 in a row with the supremes. tavis: how cool was marvin gay? >> he was great, man, and just don't get on his bad side. oh, he was so good, man. we were personal friends too because we

it's a marvelous, marvelous find. >> could you talk a little bit about the relationship with andrew jacksonry good question. it wasn't particularly good. there was a lot of strain between turner ashby was jackson's chief of cavalry during the campaign. ashby was something of a night as i call them in my book, a very romantic figure, a very dashing figure. had a real independent streak to him. was not particularly good at commanding a force larger than two or three companies. he led by personal example. he was always at the forefront of everything, which is great if you weren't company commander, but somebody who is chief of calgary doesn't work too well. he owed his position as commander of the confederate calgary forces in the valley, which is really a desperate group of companies thrown together, over a period of two months. he owed his commission, appointment directly, it's a jackson's authority over him very much the campaign was rather tenuous. at one point in the campaign, jackson became so fed up with ashby's going solo that he relieved him of command, or attempted to. various people

. >> the walt disney company is buying marvel entertainment. the price tag is $4 billion in cash and stock, which buys disney 5,000 new characters, including super heroes like spiderman, ironman and the fantastic four. the studio hinted at plans to bring some of marvel's less known characters to the big screen. the announcement sent the marvel stock up 25%, but the rest of the market didn't do so well. the stocks dropped sharply on foreign exchains overnight and the selling continued here on wall street even so, it has been the market's best august since 2000. southwest airlines is scrambling to keep its planes in the air. the company got in trouble with regulators for using unapproved parts on more than 80 jets. aviation officials gave southwest until tuesday to replace the parts, but the airline has finished less than half the repairs. regulators are threatening to ground flights if the work isn't done by tomorrow. >>> there is more evidence today of hard times in the magazine business where the consumers still watching their pennies, more ar

. >> reporter: it's a fact both accepted and marveled at here on capitol hill, the senate's most famous was also the most approachable. >> i met him in 1962. >> bertie bowman has worked on the hill for 60 years. he was there when kennedy arrived, helping to move him into his new office. >> i was surprised when i saw him again. "bertie," he said. he didn't forget bertie. >> reporter: he never forgot a name. >> politics was his profession as well as his life and a good politician remembers names and faces. >> reporter: but after bumping into kennedy for 13 years, tour guide martha gabriel is convinced politics was only part of it. >> he was just personable. he just had something that came out of him that just loved people and i was drawn by that. >> he didn't distinguish whether you were the vice president or the president versus his newspaper boy. he would literally have an interest in all of the people that were in the circles of his life. >> reporter: and for those lucky enough to be in those circles, it could literally be a life change. nancy cordes, cbs news, capitol hill. >> smith:

marvel up 3.3%. human gino just a fascinating story. basically price the at $14 a share, raised $350 million. already up 1529, up 7%. that this is a stock that was basically a penny stock. just amazing. so with that, let's head down to the nymex. >> reporter: bob was talking about the choppy news flow. there's nothing too choppy here in the oil markets. we're holding pretty steady, right around $71.50 and we've been above $71 a barrel for a little while here. keep in mind, though, we are looking at prices that are recyclable. what's happening with equities and the dollar that's what traders are focused on ahead of the inventory report we'll get from the industry trades coming out later on today. we're expecting to see an increase in crude supplies nap's what analysts are looking for overall. and we're also hearing today about the hurricane forecasting. they've lowered their forecast once again expecting fewer hurricanes this season. let's go to rich in chicago. >> we're bup a half basis point in yield. a lot of that was attributed to th

i would like to read a few pages of my new novel "land of marvels".ch morning, armed with rifle and revolver, accompanied by his interpreter and two men from the village, also armed, aliens set off on horseback for the fields of bitumen that glittered a somber welcome to him. as he drew near. for a time that could not be measured, before there existed being able to measure time, this had continued to, the slide of oil from below the scaling rock, the spreading acreage of swamp. this horse might be far from the borders of the pitch. oil could migrate many miles before flanking the belt of shale or play that held it trapped. he had to find clues to the direction of flow, the whereabouts and ferocity and depth of the underlying reservoir rock. , was some indication, though far from entirely trustworthy. a fresher, more recent flow, sometimes yellow against a darkly weathered older pitch. he was proposing, with the help of his escort, it would lay aside their rifles to take up picks and shovels, big exploratory wells and so obtain a cross-section of the f

marvel up 8%. their earnings beat. of course, the price target bumped up by a number of firms today, 18 bucks is what credit suisse is talking about. infosy is is downgraded at morgan stanley. bebe posted their second quarterly loss in a row. also see a loss for the current quarter while the street was hoping for a gain. again dell shares strong this morning. intel on that news raising the revenue forecast to $9 billion up from $8.55 billion giving an overall lift to an already positive story this morning in technology. let's go down to matt nesto at the nymex. >> scottie, you know the withhold martian thing like "take us to your leader"? in this marketplace it's difficult to find out who is leading. i'm hear that it's the currency markets leading. we just heard art cashin saying the same thing. that's what's happening here again today. we saw consumer confidence, business confidence in europe rising for the fifth straight month. that gave brent crude a lift. just a point of business, on a week to day basis we look to

everybody tells me that it's absolutely marvelous. he was a reporter for "the washington post" for many years and he tells the story of nikita khrushchev's visit. when he came here at the time the cold war was at its peak and he was the quintessential russian. when he went out to iowa and looked at the corn and disneyland. the author tells the story with enormous great humor and it's full of history. the second book i'm going to read is chris buckley's mum and pup. i think all of us who read some of this, it has a now famous line to his mother on his death bed and he looked at her as she was about to take her last breath, he said i forgive you. but when i read the excerpts of the book in the "new york times" magazine i realized how truly revealing it is about the way in which families of a certain kind live together and how you come to terms with the fact that these extraordinary people that you grew up with have reached the end of the line. it sounds like something really worth reading. so i will. >> to see more summer reading lists

there is marvelous trash here. we have examples of some of the marvelous things, but then people would rip off of it. some of these were done with humorous intent. this is one of them. the other ones were just purely to cash in a little bit. >> in some cases, the worst were based on certain things. >> the target audience was kids. they cannot tell the difference. they thought it was a real record. >> i actually had two those. >> did you? do you know where they are? they could be collectibles. >> know. -- no. i do have eight tracks at home. >> i have those as well. >> you are not as young as people leave. >> i know. >> much more to come in this next half-hour. >> the governor and now as a proposal to extend light rail in maryland. details are next. >> our rain chances are heightening. that is coming up in your forecast. >> here is a look at the winning lottery numbers from last night. good luck. ...at the jcpenney back to school huge sale. tired of waiting for your savings? with an instant money coupon from jcpenney

marvell just blew away the expectations on the earnings number there. but take a look as i said there, the retailers because bb stores posted a second quarterly loss in a row, forecasted a loss for the current quarter as well. sears holdings is off today. biopharma stocks very weak today. amgen's off along with celgene and genzyme as well. definitely almost a 2 to 1 ratio of declining stocks to advancing ones. let's go down to the nymex and matt nesto. >> yeah, we did rise for a second day. but wow, what a battle. add 25 cents to the price of crude. we were up, we were down, we were sideways and finishing, yes, as i said, higher for the second day here today. you step back a little bit, you look at the five-day picture, you're going to see a price of oil that touched 75 and never got back there again. but still, intermediate term in that $70 to $75 trading range. traders telling me you look at the board here, you look at gold is up, the dollar index is stronger, the dow is k weak, and oil is up. so there's really people are looking for a reality leader

the walt disney company is buying marvel entertainment. it's a cash and stock deal worth some $4 billion. disney will have full ownership of some 5,000 characters including iron man, spider man, the fantastic 4 and the x-men just to name a few. analysts say the deal will help disney boost its appeal to boys and young men who, in recent years, have been flocking to theaters to see the marvel superheroes on the big city. >>> well, coming up, as police try to figure out what caused dj am's death we're learning the details about the final hours of his life. >> and also as college students head back to class they have more to worry about than just their studies. tips on how to avoid the dreaded freshman 15. >> a dyou know who is behind the popularity of twitter? it may not be whom you think. el >>> well, welcome back. twitter used to be most popular among enagers, apparently not so anymore. according to comstorcomscore. only 11% of twitter users are teenagers. and other networking site are getting older users, almost all facebook users are adul

. >> this sentence that got me going was a marvelous saying by yogi berra, i don't know if you have ever heard us, he was asked what time is it? he said, you mean now? i began to think about the meaning of that. that inspired the time book, yet he there who i love. i have a whole book of things of his. i was interested in what it means to talk about what ways there are of saying no, why -- why each question can usually be answered as yes and no. that was an earlier book on american education, everything from jefferson to do e,ewey, i proud of myself. this is about the odyssey, particularly odysseus as a poet of that epoch. the main thought is that each of those fantastic adventures he tells about is really an imaginative poetic rendering of some ordinary tourists experiences. to give an example, the lotus eaters, some in africa, and his crew, some of them are clearly given drugs of some sort and they don't want to go away, they want to stay and indulge. he makes of that, the story of the lotus eaters, so everything is poet the-that is a collection of essays, the central one of úich is th

movies done on her novels, absolutely marvelous.d there's nothing wrong with movies and if you watch "sense and sensibility" or ""ide and prejudice" do it0 times. that's what we do at our house. you will be trained to love only a great movie. as you'll berained only to love a great novel. that is it will form new a distaste for what is vulgar, cheap and thoughtless. and the vulgar and the cheap and the thoughtless is what rules us now. that is the condition of those who are moving from extreme democracy into tyranny and on that happy note, i leave you. [applause] >> it's a great privilege to be able to talk to the next generation of conservatives about what books to read. i'm not going to actually give you a list partly because this book, the political incorrect guide to american literature is essentially full of reading lists, eight of them. one for each of the first eight chapters going through the whole history of literature written in english. instead of telling you our urging you to read certain books, what i want to do is t to

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that deal isworth just abo $50 a share for marvel. let's have a look what that stock did day. those are the stocks the news tonight. susie. >> sus: paul, oil prices tumbled almost 4% today on those worries >> susie: paul, l prices tumbled almost 4% today, o rries about china's economic recovery. in new york ading, october crude tures fell $2.78 to $69.96 barrel. ina is the world's second rgest oil consumer, and unti e recession hit, its appetit for fuel wasriving economies around the globe, includg cambodia. as ryan maelzer reports, the glob slowdown has raised doub about cambodia's plans to tap recent fin of oil and gas. >>eporter: strong demand from the u.s. and e.u. had been keeping cambodia's sewing chines working at full tilt. but in theast year, garment ports to those markets have slumpe costing thousands of workers their jobs. arjun goswami of the asi developmenbank says it's a hu blow for a country that still reliesn foreign aid for close toalf the government's budget. >> thiis an open economy, it's a small economy,nd it's not very diversified, there have been serious

collectors will tell you this is just a marvelous -- look at the clock on this. in this is a superb copy of this book and first edition. it is arguably his best novel, best play. outstanding tennessee williams and you go here and you'll see that absolutely is the press printing right there. that is a pretty nice copy of this book but equally as scarce is a streetcar named desire. it's very common for this particular title, the sun on this binder. in the sun has set this paper in this paper is rated a little bit on this binding so whoever owns this before me have it before the sun and a kind of faded, but most copies of this are much more than that. i think anyone -- any bookseller will tell you this is an outstanding copy and far better than most and it's really a very good copy and wonderful condition. the designer, a famous book jacket designer. this is all tennessee williams' back here. cat on a hat -- cat on a hot tin roof. the red devil. i really love reading him, i love his work and we have everything that he did in first edition and one of the reasons this

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it's a marvel. >> reporter: but the future of that marvel, along with the rest of the space program isin the air. >> what i want is direction for a while. >> a new panel appointed by the president to review nasa's direction says the budget needs a boost. >> the economy is down. >> reporter: the space agency current plan is finish the i.s.s. and retire the shuttle program by late next year. before new spaceships will be ready by 2015. the panel warns it won't happen on schedule. >> our commitment is for full funding of nasa. we're in tough times. but what we want to show is nasa generates jobs. >> reporter: jobs arizona space student nicole sharp would love to land. >> hopefully one day i'll be on the stage. >> reporter: the endeavour mission commander hopes they'll make it back to the moon and even mars. >> all astronauts love the idea eventually getting out of orbiting the earth forever and going back to the moon and other things. that's what we hope to see in the future. >> jamie: amazing pictures. thanks to the fox affiliate in houston kriv. >> eric: did you hear about this one? a d

. >> reporter: mont olympus is now mount marvelous. so come on out and put a fork in it. this cadillac, i couldn't tell you everything that was on it because i'd run out of time. he put feta cheese. it was stacked like this. this dine on a dime came to us through e-mail. if you have a great place and you want everyone to know about it, go to abc2news.com. >>> let's lack at weather now. here's john. >>> you have to have a good strawrnt, right? that would really be a letdown, right? no letdown this morning. it is beautiful out there. for those ever who you like the heat and humidity, just wait a day. our 60, 51 altoona. we'll talk about the western sections in a moment. now slipping below 70 in norfolk. at least the heat wave, we'll have that coming up as soon as tomorrow. we have the front pushing off the coast and we have clouds showing up to the west. this is the leading edge of a brand new air mass. that heat wave will start building into the weekend and essentially we're checking out high pressure surging in warm temperatures. this morning, we've got ourselves 60s lock

point bass did a marvelous job coming out of the bullpen and holding them to two hits. could not get the big hit. >> bass was extremely good, kept the ball down, put zeros up. i i that's probably as well that we swung the bat against halladay. he was one of the giambi's premiere pitchers. knows how to locate, work both side of the plate but mat jose matusz will learn from it. that's a situation where you have to be real smart, real parent and understand what the big picture is all about. >> buck: we talked so much about the young players on this team. we forget about a budding star in right field, nick markakis, making a couple of defensive plays and swinging the bat real well. talk about the way nick markakis continues to grow each and every day. >> he is consistent and consistent in all areas of the game. he kind of go unnoticed if you don't have the privilege to watch him day in and day out because he just goes about his business. you know, as a big leaguer, he has to be one the best, you know, right fielders in the game. he is the total package and a very good playe

she is here to marvel at the beauty. she will come back for good, when it is more peaceful. maybe in a year or two. for now, men with guns are not an easy fit for swan lake. but there is the very real promise of a better day. >> and now a rivalry between neighbors on the annual eurovision song contra that rejects song contest. there have been serious consequences for a song from azerbaijan from neighboring armenia. the number identified voting for armenia are now being questioned by authorities. they are being accused of being unpatriotic and a potential security a threat. officials from azerbaijan say that people have only been asked to explain why they voted for armenia. gay men are being tortured in the rock with the complicity of military forces. that is according to human rights watch in new york. names have been changed in the to report to protect the identity of those interviewed. >> three of these young iraqi men are now dead. earlier this year, an iraqi police station broadcast this video of a gay party, saying behavior was shameful. soon after, these posters appear

there's so many comics, like dc, marvel. you've got anime. you got your random little comics from the web, just stuff like that. it's cool. >> it grew out of a fan group 30 years ago in san diego to kind of celebrate comics. and slowly over the years, you know, hollywood has picked up on it, video games has picked up on it. >> if i say "star wars," you say? >> "bottle rocket!" >> and now it's a gathering place of all things pop culture, whether it be comic books, movies, video games. every sort of thing you might have a cult following, science fiction, it's all here at the san diego comic con. >> and it's all packed into a gigantic exhibit hall that's longer than six football fields. >> it's huge. this is the second time that i've been here and i'm just amazed by the sheer number of people who show up at this thing. it's just incredible. >> it's pretty cool. there's a lot of different stuff here to see, like sculptures you can see and a lot of new stuff you can see before it's in stores. so, it's pretty cool. >> okay, 1-2-3 -- >> one of the b

the lt disney company announced plans tbuy marvel entertainment for $4 billi.the deal would give disn nership of 5,000 marvel characrs, including spider man, iron man and e fantastic four. the boards ofoth companies have appred the transaction, and thdeal is expected to close by thend of the year. on wall street tod, a major sellff in china dragged u.s. ocks down. the dow joneindustrial average lost 48 points to close at 96. the nasq fell more than 19 points to close at009. e price of crude oil fell nearly 4%. inew york trading, the cost of a barrel droppebelow $70. d still to come on the and stl to come on the wshour tonight: looking for work; finding a suessor to ted nnedy; and covering the heal care debate. that follows oulook at what the upheaval in japan mes here in the u.s. gwen ifill has e story. >> ifill: japan's ters, struggling under the weight of high uneloyment, record deficits and a sinking woforce, went to the polls in record numbers this weekento upend a polical system in place for ha a century. theiberal democratic party, which has been in power

she is here to marvel at the duty.he said she will come back for good when it is more peaceful, may be in a year or two. for now, men with guns are not an easy fit with swan lake. but there is the very real promise of a better day. bbc news. >> gay men in iran are being tortured and murdered with the complicity of government security forces. that is according to human rights watch. the rights group says that 90 men have been killed by militias so far this year. more and are -- more are missing. this all in spite of the fact that homosexuality is illegal. -- is legal. >> three of these iraqi men are dead. earlier this year, this video was broadcast of a gay party in baghdad. it was not long after that these posters appeared in the streets. they called the people to watch out for gay men. they list not only names, but also addresses for alleged homosexuals. the witch hunt has already resulted in the death of some 90 gay men since january. >> we are being beaten. we are being tortured. we are being killed. every time i go

if any of them were around today, they would surely marvel at our high-tech medicine. but as prudent folks, they would also marvel- in a horrified way, i think-- at the cost of it all. how did we get here? maggie mahar wanted to find out. she's one of our best financial journalists. now, after years of research, she has written: "money-driven medicine: the real reason health care costs so much." during their summer recess, if every member of the house and senate would read it before returning to washington, the outcome of the health care debate might be very different. in this broadcast we will share with you a film based on maggie mahar's work. the book and the film couldn't be more timely as our country wrestles with what to do about money-driven medicine. >> all right, i'm dr. norfleet. and joel has been talking to you about the build-up pain you're having right now. >> yes ma'am >> is it the same kind of pain you've had before mr. willsmall? >> uh, no. it started about a month ago. >> the pain you are having now? >> yeah. >> and who is your primary doctor? >> i don

the walt disney company announced plans to buy marvel entertainment for $4 billion.the deal would give disney ownership of 5,000 marvel characters, including spider man, iron man and the fantastic four. the boards of both companies have approved the transaction, and the deal is expected to close by the end of the year. on wall street today, a major sell-off in china dragged u.s. stocks down. the dow jones industrial average lost 48 points to close at 9496. the nasdaq fell more than 19 points to close at 2009. the price of crude oil fell nearly 4%. in new york trading, the cost of a barrel dropped below $70. and still to come on the and still to come on the newshour tonight: looking for work; finding a successor to ted kennedy; and covering the health care debate. that follows our look at what the upheaval in japan means here in the u.s. gwen ifill has the story. >> ifill: japan's voters, struggling under the weight of high unemployment, record deficits and a shrinking workforce, went to the polls in record numbers this weekend to upend a political system in place for

but last tuesday chloe rushby was cable to cradle her pooch and just marveled at this miraculous returnisn't that a wonderful story? i love that story. >> they only check for the mike chip years ago. >> i don't know. they couldn't find. >> just went on a journey and decided to come back. >> amazing. >>> some steamy weather out there. >> it will be hot and humid. >> it is going to hotter and more humid than it is. it is steame outsidand the dimi s. erow dopplerdopplerdoppler 9000 er fairly qu30 minutes or so watched this form nochmu lv ca t.er onmuch in calvert. tot on the bridge from calver st. marys . uncoty there coalo route 4. we have someowsosh s. had a couple in anne arundel county e shore, north of y adshside. but you see adfr lusby to so bylomon's island, up to saint leonard here and east of prince frederick along the bay we have showers. all of this is off to the northeast. we will have some bay breeze showers and maybe some in the mountains. other than that fairly quiet. get the forecast for the next three days, 92 today. it will be kind of steamy. an isolated storm is possible

had chronic knee probables but a marvelous hitter. >> gary: 0-1 on the way. retired his number. so he will come here and join another. >> jim: the 1st base coach. we'll see him next weekend. you may not. you may not be there, but i'll see him in chicago. >> gary: 1-1 on the way. it's fouled back. mathis up. matusz has given up 3 walks they scored. he has 6 strike out. 5 runs 9 hits but he's still in there, and only that one inedge -- inning. >> you learned a lot about him. a lot of young pitchers, 14 months out of college, they give up 5 runs they won't throw it over. >> gary: down the line. could be trouble. and is. markakis will bare hand it. that's a base hit. mathis is on, a lead-off single. the 10th hit for the angels. >> jim: nobody playing there. you're standing on the mound. make a good pitch. you jam them and you know it will fall. the good news it didn't go for two. when you want that extra romer. a good softball out fielder they give you. >> gary: the 10th player. chone figgins doubled the last time up. he's walked and scored. 5-game hitting streak for figgins upping

use a little bit more help, perhaps an extension of cash for clunkers program which is working marvelously well apparently, perhaps expansion to the housing tax credit because that's helping the housing market, to state governments so they don't cut their budget and help to state workers because unemployment is going to stay high and lots of people are going to be out of work a long period of time. i don't think we'll call it stimulus, i think it's difficult now given the political environment, i think we will find policymakers providing more help to the economy. >> a lot of focus this week is on the health care bill. from an economic point of view, what do you want to see and what do you hope is not in the final bill? >> well, three things have to happen to make this reform successful. first,most importantly, we have to insure most of the uninsured otherwise, it's not worth doing. second, we have to creditably pay for that. we have to make sure that the costs of insuring the uninsured is paid for and finally, we need to have a reform that lowers the growth and future health care costs bec

. >> reporter: mount olympus is now mount marvelis, or marvelous. >> that dine on a dime idea actuallyfrom vince who e- mailed us about his great meal at the sunshine grill. if ju ju a great place you want everybody to know about, head to abc2news.com. >>> this is the week to check out that one restaurant that you've been wanting to try but afraid it would break the bank. baltimore restaurant week starts tomorrow and runs through next friday you. have about 120 restaurants in our area to choose from. all are offering select three- course dinners for $30 per person. and if you can't make it to dinner, they're also offering a two-course lunch special for 20 bucks. not bad. >> not bad at all. >>> i'm marybeth marsden. new at 6, prisoners commit crimes from prison with cell phones. but those phones may soon go silent. a maryland senator is battling for a plan that would stop inmates by jamming their cell phone. >>> and you saw snoop dogg liven up ravens training cavern today. but wait until you see what happens when the real rookies show up the pros. those stories and more coming up at 6.

. >> what got me going was a marvelous saying by yogi berra. he was asked what time is it? he said, you mean now? i got to think about the meaning of that. that inspired the time book, yeah the berra did. i have a book of sayings of his. so i was interested in what it means to talk about what is not, and what way there are of negating say no. why each question can easily be answered as yes or no. that was an earlier book on american education, everything from jefferson to dewey. i was very proud of myself. i mentioned saint john's in one little footnote. that took discipline. this is about the odyssey, particularly about odysseus as the poets of that epoch. the main thought is that each of those fantastic adventures he tells about is really an imaginative poetic rendering of some very ordinarily experience. to give an example, they have a lotus eaters, obviously someone in africa, and his crew lands, some of them are clearly given drugs of some sort and they don't want to go away, they just want to stay and indulge. and he makes up that story of the lotus eaters. so everyth

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i think there is a marvelous about why can't we do that more today. >> speak to that.t of republican friends. a lot of people expressed hear that. >> yes, that absolutely came out, but there's another story being told if you look in the media. just right after he -- his passing, the left cannot, nancy pelosi and kristof, and they started to tie this in with healthcare push. we need to do this for him. and i really think that is using the death card was very disingenuous ab rocker mama knows it himself. >> you're getting a finger way from judy. whenever i see that -- >> is not smart. think about it. if they do put his name on this bill, kennedy care, and it doesn't pass, what does that say? >> oh come on. >> beyond that the president himself, president obama said he did not want to do that without. that is not what he wants to do humanity knows it is not a good strategy. make it a liberal bill. that's why it is not getting any support. smack or whenever the american people. but the liberal lion face on it is a good help. >> they've been saying they tried a similar appro

disney is buying marvel entertainment, and its stable of thousands of comic book characters, including "spider-man," "captain america" and "the incredible hulk." the price tag f. approved, $4 billion. where potential customers are concerned, analysts said the acquisition would give disney a leg up with boys after it cornered the princess market, as it's called, for girls years ago. >>> on wall street today, stocks were lower after a big sell-off in asia. china's main stock index has fallen 25% in less than one month. the dow finished the day down just under 48 points. >>> when we continue in just a moment, as millions of parents take millions of kids off to college, an answer to the question who's watching out for the kids now? when people say, "hey mike, why ford? why now?" you know what i do? i introduce them to the most fuel-efficient midsize sedans... ...and suvs in america. i don't know if you've heard, but this fuel efficiency thing.. kind of a big deal. anyway, ford and lincoln mercury have you covered... with showrooms full of fuel-efficient cars, trucks, suvs, crossovers, and