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that's rob mcbride joining us from beijing. let's go to other news, and commemorations are taking place across japan to mark the anniversary of the 2011 earthquake. the emperor and prime minister abe attended the main ceremony in tokyo. sirens sounded at the moment the quake struck. the magnitude 9 tremor caused a tsunami, causing a melt down at the fukushima nuclear plant. over 18,000 people were killed in the disaster. >> al jazeera uncovered evidence that suggests libya was not behind the bombing of pan am flight 103 over the town of lockerbie 25 years ago. 259 passengers and 11 on the ground died when the plane exploded over a small scottish town. two years after the attack two libyans were charged. in 2001, one of them, abdel baset al-megrahi, former libyan intelligence agent was found guilty of bombing. he insisted he was innocent and was released on compassionate grounds because he had terminal cancer. >> 25 years after the lockerbie bombing which shocked the world, al jazeera uncovered new evidence casting doubt over th

now we go to beijing where rob mcbride is waiting. imagine its difficult for people there as they wait for any information on the flight. >> a long anguished day of waiting here. and now a long night of the same. during the i day relatives and friends have been turning up as news spread about the disappearance of this aircraft, showing up in a distraught state, and gradually directed to a hotel nearby. several hundreds have congregated throw the day. a number of those are being accommodated at two hotels. there is a very anguished scene and some anger from a number of passenger who is said they haven't had the kind of information they would expect from the malaysian airline staff. some say they have not seen a representative from the airline at all. there has been some anger on social media, the airline being criticized for not coming forth and giving details about the aircraft disappearance for hours. they are sending a team to beijing, a team with caregivers and people trained in counseling. the governments of the two countries have

let's go to rob mcbride at the airport in beijing. what can you tell us right now? >> it is a very agonising weight for relatives, friends of passengers aboard the aircraft, waiting for confirmation that the aircraft has, indeed, crashed in the sea. what we are hearing from malaysian airline officials in beijing, and from malaysia itself is that they cannot confirm there has been a crash. they have heard the same reports that we have, quoted on reuters newsagency. that a senior vietnamese naval official said there has been a crash. the agency is trying to get this corroborated. this has been reported. they are trying to get a corroboration. until they do get that confirmation, it is very difficult for the airline to confirm that. their official position is that this airline is officially missing. it's been some 12 hours since the last contact with the aircraft, a good six or seven hours since passengers should have been arriving in the hall at beijing international airport. relatives of passengers are being looked after at a hotel nearby, where several hundred of th

al jazerra's rob mcbride has more. >> reporter: as police continue looking for anyone else connected tack, people in china have been coming to terms with the scale and horror of the assault. according to eyewitnesses the dang started attacking passengers at random with knives, sending crowds fleeing in panic. >> translator: when i came here i felt that something was wrong i followed everyone and ran to that side. the attackers were stabbing whomever they saw. >> reporter: thousands of internet users have been expressing their outrage on social media and up loading images of security around the station in the aftermath of the attack. the authorities have promised a swift response with the country's president saying those responsible will be brought to justice. the attack comes at a sensitive time in china, in the run up to the country's national people's congress gathering in beijing. the authorities have been quick to control information about the attack, restricting reporting of the event to the official version issued by the country's state-run news agency. rob mcbride, al jazerra,

rob mcbride has more. >> an agonising wait for news. here the beijing international airport to the aircraft. reports emerging that the aircraft crashed into the sea. the reports coming from vietnamese state media, quoting a senior vietnamese naval official saying it crashed 150 miles off the coast of vietnam. it's not been confirmed by mair lines. -- mair lines themselves, their point of few is is that the aircraft is missing. until we see the wreckage or that there has been a crash landing at sea. they maintain the position that as far as we know the aircraft is listed as missing. an anxious time for relatives. 40, 50 relatives are being looked after at a hotel near here. we understand from chinese authorities, 150 to 160 chinese nationals on board, waiting for confirmation of what happens. it's gut wrenching for the relatives. many have been taken to a hotel and put in a room. malaysian airlines says 152 of the 227 passengers were chinese. >>. >> translation: i'm worried. what if something horrible happened. i'm scared. my husband has

. >> bergman: dennis mcbride is a senior trial attorney for the eeoc in the midwest. >> women who arebeing sexually harassed at the workplace always feel trapped, but the ones who are documented workers typically have some outlet. take a woman who is undocumented and think how much more vulnerable she feels. >> bergman: and they're afraid of the federal government. they're afraid of being deported. >> right. >> bergman: could you do anything about that? >> yes, i could. in fact, that's one of the things that makes this case stand out. >> bergman: congress had just passed the "u-visa" program, enacted to protect immigrant victims of crime from being deported. >> there are two purposes of that program. one is to keep the victims in the country so that they can testify against the perpetrators, and the other is to protect the victims. >> bergman: the women from decoster would be the first in the country to apply for u-visas. but first, they would have to cooperate with law enforcement, which meant telling their stories to sheriff schultz. dennis mcbride read their statements from the pol

rob mcbride, al jazeera. hundreds of protesters in greece are demonstrating against record-high unemployment and scuffles broke out as police try to contain the crowds and unemployed greeks has tripled since the crisis began more than 27% of the population is currently out of work. climate change could mean more malaria in south america and found evidence with rising temperatures it will go to high altitude areas and the danger is if the disease shifts into places that were once malaria free them populations with no protective immunity are at risk of infection and according to the world health organization it infected around 219 million people in 2010 and killing about 660,000. a man once described as batoven and he has apologized for not writing his music and said he had been working with a ghost writer for 18 years. >> translator: i'm extremely sorry to have caused such tremendous trouble. it is very hard to explain my hearing problem that is i can hear from time to time but sound gets distorted so i cannot

over his wallet and cell phone and laptop before the second man punched the victim who landed on mcbride's steps. >> it makes us concerned of our safety for sure. >> some neighbors find the evidence so disturbing that they're now banding together to find crimes for the area. >> we are starting a neighborhood watch now. >> the attack took less than 40 seconds before the men ran off. by the time officers responded, police say the men had already jumped into a white four doors sedan and sped away. >> does it make you extra caution in the neighborhood now? >> for sure and being more alert. >> in san francisco, kron 4 news. >>> california has been rocked for more than 100 after shocks followed last night's 5. 1 earthquake. the largest after shock of the 4. 1 quake this afternoon. about ten minutes ago of a 3. 2 magnitude after shock. and as stacey butler reports dozens of people are looking for a place to stay after more than 30 homes and apartments were red tagged. >> this is my unit. >> trying to determine which home s to red tag. >> they say it is unsafe and i am going to my mother in law's.

. >> rob mcbride is in hong kong. they are not hiding their displeasure with malaysia about the way it's been conducted. >> a sense of frustration and anger. a feeling that malaysia now the information leading to the expanded arc of a search area last week, and the question is why wasn't the search expanded last week, did we waste valuable time. there's a mistrust, if you like, of what the malaysians are revealing about the search operation, and what information they know. state media are reporting this president ping has spoken to the malaysian prime minister urging him to come forth with correct and timely information. the veiled criticism being there that china officially and unofficially doesn't believe it has been getting correct and timely information. so there is also a team that is headed down to kuala lumpur, made up of chinese experts. as they look at the expanded search area, the various assets are trying to work out where to search next, how do you go about searching a vast expanse of the indian ocean. the

rob mcbride is there. what is the latest? >> well, the waiting continues, waiting to get confirmation of this reported crash in the south china sea. these reports have been running for the past couple hours, mainly on reuters, quoting the state media, who interviewed a senior navy official from the vietnamese navy. they said that the aircraft crashed. until the malaysian airlines gets confirmation of that, until there is confirmation of wreckage and so on, it is difficult for them to give any kind of confirmation. the official line is that the aircraft are missing, and we don't know what happened to it. that's still the official position. we understand the various agencies are trying to get in touch with authorities in vietnam, trying to follow up and we are trying to find out how do we know the aircraft crashed. one assumes if it has crashed, it probably has done so. until we get confirmation it's difficult. it's agonising for the relatives. there was 150 to 160 chinese nationals on board the aircraft. an agonising weight. >

mcbride's donation as i understand it. roosevelt was a friend of herbert hoover and rose one of the first two campaign biographies of herbert hoover way back in 1920 and was pretty good, she interviewed people and i don't think he cared for the book and highly. at any rate they were acquainted. >> host: it gives you a feel for how friendly he was, for whom he was a figure people we never would have imagined. here is your book. is not your first, perhaps your sixth or seventh relating to hoover. hoover wrote so much after the presidency. where does this fit in and what does that? >> host: this book was previously unknown to exist. in all my years of study i had never known. it was part of a set of memoirs he started to write in 1940s after it wendell willkie got the nomination and he realized that was the last chance and started to pour some of his immense energy into writing what turned into a six volumes of memoirs. four were published in his lifetime. there are two left, one of which historians know about because hoover

. >> rob mcbride is in beijing, where the missing aircraft was headed. what's the latest there? >> well, many of the relatives are here at the hotel waiting for any news, any confirmation of what has happened to this aircraft. they've been briefed by airline staff. airline staff are making arrangements for any of relatives to be flown to the location of the aircraft if and when it has been located. they understand that people want to be near where the aircraft is located. in the meantime they are offering to fly relatives to kuala lumpur, which is closer to where the aircraft was last known to be. in the meantime, for a lot of people, there are problems on just having passports. a lot of relatives do not have passports. there are all these issues to deal with. every one of the relatives, the important thing is getting confirmation on what has happened to the aircraft. >> the ongoing wait for news as the anguish conditions. some of the relatives gathered at hotels in beijing. a special team has been flown in, made up of staff and vol doors. >> we are malaysian-chinese and can hel

rob mcbride has that story. >> reporter: the ongoing wait for news as the anguish continues. some of the relatives now gathered at hotels in beijing. malaysian airlines has been criticized as a slow response as the emergency unfolded. a special team habben flown in to off care and support made up of staff and volunteers. >> translator: we are malaysian-chinese and can help communicate with the families because of the airline doesn't have enough staff here. >> reporter: until they have confirmed otherwise, the airline officially lists the aircraft as simply missing, and already it seems relatives are prepared for the worst. she traveled here for her province trying to find news of her brother-in-law. we still don't know what happened, she told us. we've had no final confirmation. relatives have been turning up all day for briefing sessions with airline staff at this hotel looking for any news about their loved ones while the whereabouts of the aircraft remain know nun, that alone the cause of its loss, the authorities take no chances. president jinping is having security stepp

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greg mcbride of bankrate.com joins us by skype this morning. good morning greg. how did you do the study? >>we looked at 3 different portfolios of $1 million over a 20 year period in retirement pulling out money each year adjusted for inflation. what we found is that hands down dividend paying stocks and in particular companies that had increased their dividends for at least 25 consecutive years not only produced that growing stream of income that's needed to live off of but also minimize your odds of running out of money during that period of time. >>is it still worth it to go into dividend yielding stocks? >>dividend paying stocks are an important component of a normal overall portfolio. statistics have shown that dividends alone account for about 40% of long term returns. so you can't ignore them even if they tend to be those slower growing stodgier companies. >>the conservative route always is the best route. thank you greg. >>thank you angie. at & t is stepping up its game against t-mobile. in a battle over lower prices.... both cell phone carriers are cutti

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mcbride has this report. >> the frustration of not knowing boils over into anger. >> respect life, return our relatives can everyone read it. >> this was a meeting between relatives of the passengers and airline staff at the hotel in beijing, that has become the focal point for any information. >> the relatives believe that information has been with held until now. >> what we want is the truth. >> the malaysians are counting days but we chinese are counting seconds. the families are at the point of collapsing. >> from frustrating airline staff, a plea for understanding, for the answers they simply don't have. >> i can accept the criticisms and mistakes you have pointed out, but the problem is that some information and material we really have no way to access. >> as china extends it's rout that it could have taken, the relatives believe valuable time has been lost. it is almost inconceivable that the plane could have come down over land, without anyone knowing about it, but the areas now being searched are some of the best remote along china's borders. >> the government in china says every

rob mcbride, aljazeera, beijing. >> just ahead, we have all the sport, including 17 time grand slam winner roger federer feeling the heat in miami. the details, in just a few moments. holy money only on al jazeera america >> just ahead of the sport, megaup load was shot down in 2012 are two copyright infringement. now, kim.com is entering politics. the new zealand tycoon set up a new political party named the internet party, where he's a contestant to september's poll. we report. >> just outside new zealand's largest city, oakland is the sprawling estate of an internet mogul where german born kim.com spends time devicing new ways to make money on line and ways to enter toll particulars. he set up the internet party to contest the general election later in the year. >> the idea was formed out of injustice on my case, it is raid, the illegal spying, the destruction of my business, my internet website. >> dot com is wanted in the united states where he's accused of copyright infringement, charges that could bring 20 years in jail. he hosts illegally copied material, his site megaup load costs

rob mcbride with more. >> china's cities especially in the north having experienced their worst smog of the winter, turning sky lines from this to this, the question is whether the country can afford to reduce pollution, can it afford not to? beijing resident has developed her own arsenal of weapons to deal with the smog. from face masks to lamps. >> it is called crystal lamp. >> air pure fire and even a uv lamp. even with that, on the worst days she stays away from work. >> if no one went to work it would cost the country money and then the government would have to do something. >> there are no doubts about the environmental benefits of replacing older polluting industries. the challenge authorities face is finding enough businesses to offer alternative jobs, especially in a society where maintaining social stability is important. one year into his farming venture, he is seeing the fruit of his labor. organic strawberries in this greenhouse. he was encouraged by government incentives to shift into a greener business. he is planning other fruit and vegetable crops on his farm in herb

rob mcbride is at beijing international airport. has any contact been established with the plane? >> authorities had been trying to follow up with vietnamese authorities, where the reports had come from, where the aircraft crashed into the sea. it's 12 hours since the plane should have arrived here at beijing capital airport. the passengers would have been arriving at the hall. given the amount of time, the assumption has to be that it has been lost over the sea. if it had been lost over the land we would have had reports of that. authorities are trying to find out more information from the vietnamese that the reports came from, that it crashed into the sea. all we know further to that is another vietnamese naval official has been quoted as saying it could have gone down closer to the malaysian coast or the vietnamese coast than earlier thought. we know that aircraft and vessels have been dispatched to the area, where it's thought the aircraft has to be lost. until we see wreckage or get confirm hags that it crashed, it's a case of the aircraft being missing so far. >> i take it r

from beijing, rob mcbride reports. >> a second day without knowing, a second day of anguish. this hotel has become the coordination center for relatives and friends waiting for news of their loved ones. many are now comforted by a team of caregivers assembled by the airline taking them to be closer to the scene of the search. for relatives like this woman, waiting for news of her niece, being here or being there is just as agonizing. >> i don't know what to do. we're waiting here. even if we go to mag alicia, they will still make us wait. >> another relative traveled here from nearby trying to find news of her brother-in-law. >> we still information on what's happened she told us. we've had no final confirmation. malaysia airlines has been criticized for a slow response as this emergency unfolded, a claim the carrier denies. >> when something like this happens, you do not immediately jump to the conclusion that something bad happened. you start investigating all issues. then you start contact be air traffic control, malasia, vietnam, china, hong kong, looking for any opportun

robert mcbride has more. >> reporter: enjoying the wintery sunshine.his sprawling public housing estate, life looks better thanks to massive public spending. living in modern apartments for about a hundred u.s. dollars a month. >> translator: the local government pays at a lot of attention to improve the city's infrastructure, and create better living conditions. >> translator: the city has been making great progress in cent years growing a lot faster than neighboring areas. >> reporter: while residents count themselves lucky, the city has been counting the costs. these developments are a legacy of the former heard, imprisoned last year in the highest profile scandal to hit the chinese leadership in decades. mostly under his leadership, this mega city doubled the size of its rail system, it tripled its road network, and public house estates pushed the cities boundaries ever further into surrounding farm land. the growth has stood out in a country of extravagant infrastructure projects who's true costs have raised concerns among international investors.

mcbride's donation as i understand.roosevelt was a friend and actually wrote one of the first campaign biographers way back in 1920 and it was pretty good she went around and interviewed people and i don't think that he cared for the buck and hired away. she felt like he was glamorizing her too much. >> host: this is very exciting how friendly he was and, you know, for whom he was a figure people we never would have imagined. here is your book. perhaps it is your sixth or seventh and related. he wrote so much after. where does this fit in? >> host: it was previously unknown to exist in all of my years of study i've never known. >> host: it's a dramatic discovery. >> guest: it is part of a set of memoirs that he began to write after wendell wilkie got the nomination for the republicans and he realized that was his last chance so he said he is taking a new turn of immense energy into writing what turned into six volumes of memoirs. there were two left but of which they referred to in other places but hadn't yet seen. afte

and rob mcbride has the latest. >> being treated at hospital number one is chang and one of a group ofidaying retirees who were attacked. he tried to defend another member of the group, the friends tell us, suffering stab wounds to the head and arm in the process. at this within hospital alone 60 patients are treated with injuries and some stabbed once and others multiple times and a worse case is a man stabbed through the heart requiring transfusions of eight liters of blood. >> he survived, one of ten patients treated in intensive care. putting on display weapons used in the attack authorities have continued to blame separatists and drawn from the minority muslim league of community, some of whom oppose chinese rule. authorities are promising to hunt down any attackers still on the run. >> translator: if we let one attacker go free, this person could be a time bomb. >> reporter: if the separatists were to blame, why a tack could be 1500 kilometers from the troubled region. the apparent connection would seem to be the small community. people here are just as shocked as fellow resident

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>> guest: the papers went to a man named roger mcbride who is deliberative and candidate for presidentor at least he was an active libertarian and donated the papers to the library in iowa so that's how the papers end up in the library. through his donation as i understand. she actually wrote one of the first campaign biographers way back in 1920 and she went around and interviewed people and i don't think he cared for the buck and i really. but anyway they were acquainted. >> host: this is exciting and gives you a feel for how friendly he was and for whom he was a figure. people you never would have imagined. here's your book. it's not your first. it's the sixth or seventh. after the presidency where does this fit in and what does it add a? >> guest: it was previously unknown to exist. in my years of study i've never known a -- >> host: there was a dramatic discovery. >> guest: it was part of a set of memoirs he started to write after wendell wilkie got the nomination and the hoover realized that was his last chance so he said he'd was taking a new turn into writing what turned into s

over his wallet, cell phone and laptop, before the second man punched the victim who landed on raef mcbride's steps. >> just makes us a little concerned about our safety for sure. >> some neighbors find the incident so disturbing they're now banding together to fight crime in the area. >> couple of us are getting surveillance camera and starting a neighborhood watch now. >> the attack took less than 40 seconds before the men ran off. kronberg's wife called 911 but by the time officers responded, police say the men had already jumped into a white four door sedan and sped away. >> do they make you extra cautious in the neighborhood now? >> for sure we'll just be a little more alert probably, so definitely more alert. >> in san francisco, kron4 news. >>> oakland police are hoping to close a case they've been working on for more than a month as kron4 reports two suspects have already been arrested in a string of robberies and cops are now on the hunt for a third. >> reporter: this man is considered arm and dangerous, authorities are urging if he is spotted not to approach or try to stop him, but

>> guest: well, the papers went to a man named roger mcbride, we think was a libertarian candidate forpresident at one point or at least as an active libertarian and he to the library in iowa, said that 70 papers end up in the hoover presidential library to mr. gregg donation as they understand it. she actually wrote one of the first two campaign biographies of herbert hoover way back in 1920. it is pretty good. she went around and interviewed people. i don't think he cared for the book entirely. he thought maybe she was glamorizing him too much. >> host: this is very exciting and gives you a feel for how friendly he was and for whom he was a figure. people we never would've imagined. here is your book. it's not your first, perhaps your or seventh relating to hoover. hoover wrote so much after the president reappeared where does this fit in and what does it add? >> guest: this book just published his previously unknown to exist in all my years of study i had never known. so it was part of a set of memoirs. he started to write in 1840 after wendell wilkie got the nomination for presiden

rob mcbride, al jazerra. >>> tensions have been simmering over a heavily muslim region in china's fart it is home to the muslim people many who are unhappy about chinese restriction on his their culture and religion. but this is the first time people from there have been blamed for carrying out such a big attack so far from home. last october the communist party leadership said the separatists were responsible for an attack on beijing's tieniman square. a vehicle plowed in to tourists killing five people. >>> let's get more now from the former presiden president of tha american association, remember they behind this attack? >> well, it's hard to give you any exact information because the chinese government is the one that needs to investigate and provide public more information. but whatever the reason, whoever did it, it's a heinous act and civilians should not be attacked in such a horrible way. many innocent lives have been lost. >> whoever is responsible -- if you could hazard a guess what sort of message are they trying to get across? if it is somebody from that community what wo

over his wallet, cell phone and laptop before the second man punched the victim who landed on raef mcbride's steps. >> just makes us a little concerned about our safety for sure. >> some neighbors find the incident so disturbing they are now banding together to fight crime in the area. >> couple of us are getting surveillance camera and we are starting a neighborhood watch now. >> the attack took less than 40 seconds before the men ran off. kronberg's wife called 911 but by the time officers responded, police say the men had already jumped into a white four door sedan and sped away. >> do they make you extra cautious in the neighborhood now? >> for sure. >> i think i'll just be a little more alert probably. so definitely a little more alert. >> in san francisco, kron4 news. >>> police in oakland are asking for your help in identifying two robbery suspects. they robbed a victim at gun point in north oakland friday morning. officers say two men robbed a woman near the rock ridge bart station. both suspects described as african american men in their 20s. >>> also in oakland police are looking f

. >> reporter: mcbride said that's no reason for mrs. you're a woman leader. and people look for you to do that not only at home but around the world. >> now there are some comparisons already being made to the first lady's 2010 trip to chengdu. a lot of people thought it was a big family vacation. that trip was heavily criticized because it cost 3 $500,000. >>> actor wayne knight is alive and doing fine this morning. no matter what the internet will have you believe. the the hoax is part of a trend that may be no accident. >> reporter: wayne knight once became dinner for a dinosaur in "jurassic park" and nearly burned to death in his mail truck on "seinfeld." in real life knight is still very much alive. he took to twitter on sunday to refute reports he had died in a tragic car accident. one of these stories appeared on the website ebuzzed which received 1,000 facebook likes. some viewers may have confused it with tmz.com. the editor-at-large at cnet. >> obviously these sites aren't getting anywhere near that but if they can get a fract

but, you know, our survey or our predictions of bank rate led by our chief analyst greg mcbride indicatednterest rates, at least the longer end of the curve to rise over time over the next year. >> it will be interesting to see when we start to -- as you said earlier, we're not really pricing that in at the moment. it will be interesting to see when that takes place. >> yeah. the economy, let's face it, has underperformed here. by its own admission, the fed has tended to be overly bullish on the outlook for the economy. very often the economy has underperformed in the face of the fed's bullish predictions. and i suppose we might say at this point we're hoping the fed is not wrong about that, once again. >> and look, inflation, they've been helped out by the low print of inflation, as well. do most think it will stay low? >> most of on our economists think inflation will rise over the next 12 months. between headline, consumer price and the core, in a sweet spot, around the 2% area over the next 12 months. that is not at a worrisome rate. as we also know, one thing that workers in the u.s.

neil mcbride who i'm sorry that you left, did an incredible job.he probably set the tone and style for every u.s. attorney. but we've got to deal with this issue. there will be two things. one, you have to go after the pimps. we understand the iris does want to do that. i think you need a major effort here to break the back, if you go after the pimps and start tracking their income, hit them and hit them and hit them and hit them and hit them. you are dealing with -- 13 or 14 year old girls. you are dealing with, from all levels and all families. and some locations even punish the young girls, if you will. we need places where by they can go for rehabilitation. joe gibbs house is doing some things, but you really, and i would like your best people to look, how do we break the back of this? go after the pimps. have the irs put together a team. years ago when we had a different committee with a different jurisdiction, we had a national conference, international conference, bringing all of the people together around the world on international sexual t

why is it more than just trayvon martin or jordan davis or renisha mcbride? big factors that i talk about in the second half of the book. probably the biggest is racial bias in america. most of us don't want to think we're racist. everybody says their color blind. but we continue to have these outcomes. what's going on? at the root of it is implicit racial bias. it's a free test developed by harvard researchers. a lot of us may be shocked at what you discover when you take that test. >> i've taken it. and i was also surprised. >> about 50% of african-americans test for racial bias against african-americans. about 80% of whites do. so it's very disturbing when you find that out about yourself. the good news is that you can change it. there is hope. and i have a lot of examples in the book about doctors, police, judges and juries who can make changes once they're aware of these biases. >> you also talk about the gun culture that exists in this country and how there is almost one gun per american. and you note the fact that we have the highest rate of gun deaths

let's bring in greg mcbride from bank rate.com. it's great to see you. mean the end of low borrowing rates for american households and companies? >> well, not yet, kelly. i think what the fed did today was what was expected. they continued to stair step the tapering process by another $10 billion and pledged to keep the short-term rates unchanged. i think the message to consumers and businesses is 2014 could be your last hurrah to pay down that variable rate debt. things like credit cards, home equity lines of credit, student lobes while you have this tailwind. come 2015, 2016, then rates are going to start to move up, you will have a head wind. now is the time to make headway on that variable rate debt. >> sharon? >> what about the retirees out there looking for some type of safe haven. maybe they have a lot of money in cds, fixed income investments, what can they expect? >> more of the same, unfortunately. it's been a brutal environment for savers and anybody hunkering down in safe haven investments and not just recently but for the last five years. un

they are ethnic muslim separatists and the following report by al jazeera's rob mcbride is traffic. >as police continue looking for anyone else, people in china have been coming to terms with the scale and horror of the assault. the gangs started attacking passengerers. thousands of users expressed outrage on social media and uploading imills of security around the station in the aftermath of the attack. the authorities promised a swift response with the country's president ping saying those responsible will be brought to justice. the attack comes at a sensitive time in china in the run up to the national people's congrs gathering in budget. authorities have been quick to control information about the attack, restricting reporting of the event to the official version issued by the state-run newsagency. >> china state media says two of the attackers may have been women. >> rain is pounding southern california triggering a series of mudslides. it was higher than 8 inches expect in some of the mountain arse. no injuries have been reported. the wet weather is expected to let up later toda

one of your friends on the phone, martina mcbride, are you there? hello?ends jerry. >> i think he wrote nice stuff about me in the book. >> be nice to him then. what impact has he made, martina? >> jerry made a few impacts on this town and that we all got to listen to him every morning for many, many years and he made me laugh every single day. and the thing i love most about jerry is that he's one of the people that is super funny, but really generous. so you know how some people have to be the only funny person in the room? they're funny, so they can't let anybody else have any -- they don't laugh at anybody else's jokes. he's always so generous. he's just a great person. i'm really proud to know him as a friends. >> what a great testimony. >> she has a book coming out. it's called "under the table," isn't that your book? >> yes. >> what's your book called? >> "around the table." >> a little different story. >> one of the great things about jerry is hes have a writer. he understands from the musical point of view and the personality point of view. we're

. >> one of your friends we've got on the phone now, martina mcbride, are you there?out? i heard that makes you cry. >> i might have done that in kansas but that was before youtube. >> bye everybody. >> you pack a lot into a week. >> this show is not over, by the way. russell simmons joining us on the show. you're not going to believe that. >> i dare him to try to get me to meditate. but for now? >> it is a shocking revelation. the pope says he's broken one of the ten commandments. his confession next. >> reading, math and meditation, russell simmons is pushing for meditation and is causing controversy. >> it is unplugging day, russell. you've got to put the phone down. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] for paul ridley, there's no substitute for advil. it's built to be as fast as it is strong and fights pain at the site of inflammation. advil has the strength and speed to help you move past pain. a a [ male announcer ] at northrop grumman, we've always been at the forefront of advanced electronics. providing technology to get more detail... ♪ detect hiddethreats... ♪ see the who

rob mcbride, al jazeera beijing. >> reporter: malaysia airlines is providing hotel rooms for family membershe search is on going and offering to fly people to malaysia to be closer to where the plane may have gone down. today marks the 10th anniversary of the madrid train bombings and 191 people killed and more than 1800 others injured in the 2004 attack. it was the worst attack of its kind in history. and we report from madrid. >> reporter: every name here represents a life lost. 191 people victims of the madrid train bombings, their names carefully carved into the memorial marking their loss. ten years ago madrid was brought to a halt by carnige and terror and four bombs exploded on trains and packed with commuters. >> translator: everything went black, the floor disappeared, it was a tremendous shock, i got up and the first thing that occurred to me was to throw myself out of the window on to the tracks. someone helped me get up and i managed to climb on to the platform. i don't remember much more. >> reporter: in hours the conservative group blames a group but they denied it and then li

could never no matter how far blake then does the stuff he got really loves country music martina mcbride was on recently we talked about the symptoms of the gay community and country music you think that could happen could there be a country star who. i don't know i have as a question a star i know in the community in asheville i mean it's you know i have a lot of friends there are gay straight there's all sorts people national writing songs and an industry in the music it's you know gays arriving soon to some singing of course. i don't know who's unknown in that artist but those were driving down a redneck country usually that we have maybe a stereotype that rev yeah yeah national is and i think he'll come to nashville it's kind of a good thing in a bad. thank you the people are just discovering my little city after being there for twenty years just blowing up as you go realizing that it's just such a great town it's not stereotypes might have that it or country music i think are merely shot down the second it's national because it's such really is of such a mixture of people it's such

bush's former chief of staff, anita mcbride says mrs.a has chosen to leave politics to the president. >> and i think people may have had an expectation that she would engage in other issues, even before this trip to china. but she's doing exactly what she wants to do. >> president obama's top ambassadors embracing diplomacy with the first lady's touch. >> reporter: and aides here say during talk at beijing university tomorrow, michelle obama will raise one topic controversial in china, that's the issue of internet freedom. critics have complained this is an expensive taxpayer funded family vacation. the white house insists that's not the case. >> peter alexander at the white house for us. thank you. >>> and coming up -- house for sale. the toll that oscar pistorius' murder trial is having on his personal finances. >>> and how did a teenager manage to sneak past security to reach the top of one world trade center? first this is "today" on nbc. ♪ ♪ ♪ i gotta have that bag. italian leather? for an amazing deal, and i love that designer. [ s