and the okhoma-based oil and gas company called kerr-mcgee decided to open up a brand new facility in oklahoma in 1965 that would build nuclear fuel rods out of uranium and plutonium. these were fuel rods that were going to be used in nuclear reactors all over the country. well, one of the local residents who took a job at that new facility in crescent was a 26-year-old named karen silkwood. she worked as a lab tech, processing plutonium for use in nuclear fuel rods. karen silkwood was also a union rep and she started raising safety concerns about what was happening in the plant. accidents, safety standards, workers potentially being poisoned by the radioactive material they were working with. karen silkwood was on her way to meet with a reporter for the "new york times" to talk about those concerns at the plant when she died on the way to that meeting. she died in a one-car crash. >> in november 1974 karen silkwood died when her car ran off this highway and struck a culvert wall 25 miles north of oklahoma city. silkwood had been on her way to tell a reporter about what she believed w

skip mcgee has stepped on it. focuses on climbed and the bank focuses on regulation. if you go behind the story, there is a lovely piece saying, should it to be do more with the fact that tom king and goldman sachs -- thehey were co-running investment bank, were they? sole position. >> that may be why mcgee is leaving. i am not saying that skip mcgee is being jumped over. if you don't get what you want, which is the top job, sometime any point inere is me staying or am i worth more to someone else? >> the criticism is that he is not an investment banking man. you are getting rid of a good talent. >> are you getting rid of it or are you driving talent away? this bad bank could be worth up to 8000 jobs. part of the issue in the united thees of america, last year issue was that the talent was leaving barclays at twice the rate that it used to. the culture of lehman and the culture of barclays is at odds. it is the question of the west taking over the game. the game at some point will be unwatchable. it might be 2009.

. >> mary mcgee? good morning. mary mcgee. i'm a red of the mission and work at san francisco general and worked there as a nurse for 26 years. i'm speaking about the elimination of the 23 from potrero avenue corridor down to san francisco general. there are many many gems to the muni system and the no. 9 is not one of them. it's kind of the shame of the muni system. i really really ask you to ride the 9 some morning or late afternoon before you even thinking about eliminating the 33. it is so over crowded. people are so disabled. if they have to change buses at 16th and potrero they are going to be boarding if they get off the 23 to get on the 9 they are boarding an already crowded bus. you have people with congestive heart failure, people with disabilities and people with wounds and people that go daily for methadone. actually that methadone clinic is a tremendous disservice to san francisco despite it's problems. it would be cruel to eliminate the 33 especially if the changes to the 9 have not been implemented and proven to

mcgee says in a statement.. "after 21 years with lehman brothers and barclays, i have made the difficult decision to leave." it comes as three barclays employees in new york face charges of conspiracy in connection with libor rigging. next month, barclays is expected to reveal sweeping changes to scale back its business amid tougher banking regulations. northern trust is served a subpeona from the s-e-c. the probe reportedly has to do with documents related to the financial services company's securities lending activities.northern trust also said that a number of lawsuits have been filed claiming that northern trust - quote - "failed to exercise prudence" -- in the investment management of collateral. three nominees clear a senate hurdle to join the federal reserve board. the senate banking comittee has backed president obama's nominees.the full senate must now vote for final confirmation. among the picks... stanley fischer, who is slated to become fed vice chairman. former u.s. treasury official lael brainard i

anadarko petroleum will pay $5.1 billion dollars to resolve claims that its subsidiary kerr mcgee is liable for the massive cleanup of dozens of contaiminated sites from oklahoma to pennsylvania. the navajo nation will recieve $1 billion from the fund to address radioactive contamination from kerr mcgee's uranium mining operation. anadarko shares rallied 14%. the emergency landing of a delta flight is under scrutiny. the f-a-a says on wednesday a laguardia bound jet, was diverted to jfk because of a failed hydraulic system. the plane then rolled onto a grassy area off the runway. investigators still don't know why. the passengers and crew were not hurt. banks are bracing for a new hacking scam called "unlimited operations" government regulators say the hack attacks occur on holidays and weekends...when extra money is loaded into atms and banks during off hours. a recent attack pulled in $40 million from only 12 debit card accounts, according to the government. consumer privacy advocates recommend using credit cards rather than debit acounts. citigroup faces a criminal investigation.

heather mcgee. okay, heather, we now have essentially blown the cap on what people can give in these elections, what does that mean pragmatically for our elections process? >> it means that in some ways the lights are going out a little bit dimmer on the grand experiment that is the grand democracy, so the first amendment is -- the entire constitution is actually in service of something pretty bold and hard to maintain which is a representative form of government. and point out how much the entire dominance of our politics of our wealthy people, millionaires and billionaires means our entire system is skews toward their -- one out of every three minutes they're caught talking to people that can write big checks. that means that the minimum wage, which the president is going to be talking about today don't get a fair hearing because there's research that shows that wealthy people are not in support of a high minimum wage that would allow people to escape poverty. >> you have shown sort of the distort

the payments include $1 billion to the navajo nation for damages from kerr-mcgee's uranium mining.the activist and journalist barrett brown has reportedly reached at lee deal with prosecutors after 19 months behind bars. supporters say brown has been unfairly targeted for investigating the highly secretive world of private intelligence and military contractors. last month, prosecutors dropped a number of charges against him related to the hacking of the private intelligence firm stratfor, which exposed how the firm monitors activists and spies for corporate clients. around was still facing up to 70 years in prison. the plea deal remains sealed, but wired reports round is now being charged with assisting stratfor hacker after the fact and obstructing the execution of a search warrant. those two charges would dramatically reduce his possible prison time. the hearing is scheduled for april 29. peace talksd between israelis and palestinians have deadlocked after israel canceled a planned release of palestinian prisoners. the move came after palestinians applied for membership in 15 int

kerr mcgee tried to dodge paying for the clean-up by splitting the company. oil and gas sold to annadarko are profitable and will have to pay. >> i'm meteorologist rebecca stevenson. a strong storm threat continues. as we go into the east the storms will track overnight across arkansas and the carolinas, tracking over the gulf coast. we've had powerful storms throughout the evening hours bringing in ping-pong to base-ball size hail. intense down bursts of winds, bringing in damage. tornados reported twice in missouri, and tornadoes and funnel clouds in parts of texas. the warnings have been coming up as a whole, a large portion of the central south states are under a tornado watch the the most likely areas to have the lightening and wind with the potential for a tornado will move to louisiana and into southern illinois. missouri has been hit hard. storm reports, mainly hail, and they caused damage to cars and sheds. we'll see the potential of that damage and the wind gusts. that line tracking eastward. you can see where the concern focus further east into the

so are you saying to me that right now because of what commissioner tailor mcgee said, right now the regulations pertaining to tobacco are not applicable to e cigarettes? >> correct. that means in theory right today you could walk into a mcdonald's and the mcdonald's could be full of adults with e cigarettes in their hands and smoking in front of children and other families. that's currently the case. they're advertising on radio, newspapers and television. within san francisco they're going to have to follow the same laws that are followed for tobacco. we're not using the word ban. we're basically regulating them in the same way we're regulated other cigarettes. >> yes, commissioner -- >> i'd like to go off on that too pertaining to the utilization of e cigarette. i've heard from a couple of old-timers that i guess have lived in these apartments where before they used to smoke and now they no longer smoke and they say that the landlords have said that there's a smoking ordinance they pay to the health department that says they can no longer be smoking in these small units and some o

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. >> reporter: in the neighboring town, devastated three years ago by another tornado, michelle mcgee had just moved to this neighborhood. >> this is what i worked my life for and just lying there. >> reporter: so much lost but it's what she's found that really hit home, an old jewelry box, a gift from her mother. a lot of people alive here because of a timely warning. the storm prediction center called it as late as friday that there would be a risk of strong perhaps tornados here in south and central arkansas, brian? >> all right. lester holt, mayflower, arkansas. we'll keep an eye on it all night and so will the weather channel err more tonight, of course, on your late local news. >>> other news, the search for the missing malaysia airlines 777 could be a long face. underwater as the air cop ration, the part of this that was looking for wreckage on the surface of the water now comes to an end over seven weeks after the aircraft disappeared. nbc's katy tur remains at search headquarters in perth, australia, good evening. >> reporter: it's not the news they wanted to come out of here

eugene mcgee a set of clippers and see. it's what we're seeing here is the continued fruits of the us invasion which de stabilize the country and a failed attempt to rebuild the country under different offices right now in iraq what we see is something of a confessional system that was set up by the us occupation they essentially did everything they could muster the invitation to divide the country along ethnic and religious lines and so there is no real national government even though i believe he is allegedly the head of government for the entire country. i don't think certainly the election process as they think this all that so far received in fact the belief the government has even deep in that i've been so many ways in so i think that this lecture will discontinue the same state of affairs that we have seen. in the post occupation phase of iraq where the devices are not rich but elections and in fact violence continues is diff infection spotted the squares of the day. it's pretty pessimistic outlook of the future of t

suit was asking for $25 billion to clean up 85 years of pollution left behind by the company's kerr mcgee unit. investors were relieved the case is finally closed and shares surged 14% to $99. perry ellis shares popped even though the clothing maker reported a fourth quarter loss. the company says it's disappointed with the results and blamed it on bad weather and slow traffic in the malls. but earnings did end up topping estimates, and that's what investors focused on. the stock rose more than 2.5% to $14.62. and vivishares tumbled on a downgrade. piper jaffray lowered its rating on the stock stop underweight and slashed its price target to $3 from $8. the firm's site is concerned over the outlook for the company's anti-obesity drug. vivisell dropped to $5.83. >>> some good news about jobs one day ahead of the labor department's all important march employment report. the outplacement firm says u.s. companies planned only 34,000 layoffs in march. that's a good number unless you're one of the 34,000. that added to the number of announced job cuts in the first quarter and made it come in at

the settlement relates to cleaning up 85 years worth of pollution left behind by its err-mcgee unit.krtt- those are some of the headlines this hour. the future offor television heating up yesterday. amazon introduces a new video streaming device called fire tv. director, andor, producer ron howard announces he is teaming up with discovery communications. a new studio that focuses on videos for just online users. >> but you have to approach it in a new way. you have to reach to the people that now for some years have been exploring a creatively. it will be great to be part of it and to grow a studio. >> discovery communications is a partner also in another project with a company called earth cast. videoill stream live hd from outer space. joining me now not from outer space but from san francisco is dan lopez, the director of technology for earth cast. great to have you with us. what about this hd broadcast from space -- we are used to seeing astronauts and pictures, but this is something different. >> this is a pretty spectacular feat we have pulled off. we have had a lot of excitement t

unit, people are talking, they deny it in a take it at their when skip mcgee, when he walks out the doorat the head of investment banking unit with somebody like lobbies are telling them we are in deep trouble unless something changes, we will retrench, this is a sinking ship so to speak. liz: thank you very much. the federal reserve has spoken, but what is really happening in the arteries of the economy? the nation's railroad, one of the country's largest railroad companies. we have the chairman and ceo in a fox business exclusive. coming up, the real deal from him. warren buffett owns the real deal. we are heading straight to his town. i am leaving tonight from the annual shareholders meeting for the next couple of days i will be speaking with warren buffett himself throughout the whole weekend. few people get this type of access. do me a favor, tweet me your facebook name, use the hashtag ask liz to get in on this conversation. anybody can do it. tell me what you would like to ask warren buffett himself. ♪ latte or au lait? cozy or cool? "meow" or "woof"? exactly the way you want it .

. >> officers, david hamilton and meagan mcgee each have years of experience at second-guessing where inmates like to hide contraband. >> okay. i found two razors that were removed. the blades were removed from the disposable razors. and these can be melted into a toothbrush handle, used as real good slashing instruments because they are solid, very sharp razors. >> there's another one. >> looks like my partner has found another one. i'm going to confiscate these. they have about 20 of them. and they're only supposed to have, like, one each. >> this was manufactured from a bed spring. >> officer steve feudner works for san quentin's investigative unit, where they keep a collection of confiscated inmate manufactured weapons. >> the inmates pry a portion of their bed spring off of the bunk rail. they straighten it. they sharpen it. and this inmate used string for the handle. these weapons are very well made, extremely sharp. very deadly weapons. >> we got about a two inch, two to four inch piece of bed spring that's missing out of here. >> it's not red painted. >> strange. >> top or bot

heather mcgee, president of the public policy organization demos. thank you both for being here.e listening to our discussion with david kennedy on just how dire the situation is in schools. you heard about that report that we've all been reeling in response to about inequality in the education system. how related is -- i'll start with you, heather, is this educational inequality early on to the long-term effects we've seen chronicled in this urban league report? >> i understand one of the things that connects these two issues, disproportionate locking up of 4 and 5-year-olds to the babies to the inequality in the job market is something we shouldn't be ashamed to talk about it. which is our often unconscious prejudices and stereotypes. i have a thinking that a call to action for your viewers should be to go on the harvard university website for the implicit association test. which allows you to just go and find out how hard it is for you to make a connection between a darker face and a positive word. and what it's found is that over hundreds of thousands of people who have taken

and then over here, i know it's here -- there it is -- mcgee town.t for this cell right here is tupelo, and it appears that this is just going to go pairly to the city limits of tupelo. there are television stations there which are having live coverage at the moment, but they dent have anything to see yet. one thing we don't know, until ground radar lets us know -- we have a lot of stations in and around -- that's whether these tornadoes are on theground or -- on the ground or in the air and that's matter of minutes. rick is in the weather center. isn't it early for this? >> not really. in fact this is right at about the prime time for seeing this, and there's a tornado on theground in tupelo, and they now declared a tornado emergency for the city of tupelo. what you see right there on your screen, you see that pink area at sherman, that's the hail core. see the notch to the south? that where is the toward would be and that is what is headed directly in the area of tupelo. maybe just on the northern side of town but a tornado on the ground headed dir

kerr mcgee under umbrella of anadarko, they reach ad settlement for cleanup claims and the stock is onise, what it does it takes out uncertainty of this looming over the stock. meantime, anadarko agrees to pay out a total of just over five billion dollars to the plaintiffs. and there you go. so now it's settled and it is jumping. melissa, i wash my fruit for the kids but not for myself because i'm quick and running and i really should. melissa: those dry cleaning hangers are killing our i.q. who knew. nicole, thanks so much. before we head to break i had to show this one. this is fabulous and wackiest hotels in the world. this one included. traveling snack lovers can get air doughnut fix ad this incredible sheraton hotel in china. it is 27 floors of doughnut inspired luxury. if that doesn't float your boat, how about the bar by suite at the palms hotel in las vegas? barbie. 2500 square feet of over the top pingness! i never liked barbie. that looks horrible. tweet me if you like this idea. tesla is trying to make it happen. we've got the details. facebook is on the rope. the rich kids

. >> diana is escorted by her father's mother, diana mcgee. >> i know how much she loves her mother,i've known felicia for most of her life, and she's a good girl. she's got caught up in some bad situations. she had a rough life growing up, which has affected her, and i hurt for the both of them. >> that's my daughter. >> all rise. >> okay. >> you may be seated. we are here on case 565333. this is the state of ohio versus felicia smith. >> if convicted, smith could face up to two years in prison. but rather than go to trial, she's decided to enter a guilty plea to aggravated assault and domestic violence in exchange for what she hopes will be probation and her freedom. >> and you understand that by changing your plea here in the manner as indicated by the prosecutor, you would then be admitting the truth of the charges to which you are pleading. you would be waiving your right to go to trial and the court could proceed to immediately sentence you on these charges? how do you plea? >> guilty, your honor. >> is that made knowingly and voluntarily and of your own free will? >> yes. >> a

a lot of military families here, and another woman michelle mcgee had moved here a year and a half ago and searching for whatever she could yesterday, and back here today, and people are cleaning up, and this is the hardest hit town in arkansas, with eight confirmed deaths in vilonia, and throughout the state, 15 deaths. we are learning more about the victims, and we spoke with dan waszem, and his son was away on sunday, and he served in the arkansas national guard and he had been deployed to iraq, and shielding his young daupgt daug ages 5 and 7 years old, and saved them, but hit in the head with a 2x4 and passed away. and his father is coming to terms with the loss. >> he gave his life for his daughters. >> yes, he did. trying to protect them. he is truly my hero, and i'm going to miss him greatly and what a great dad he was. he really loved those girls and loved his wife, and what a great son he was. you know. you could not ask for a better son. >> still, a lot of cleanup go g ing on here in vilonia, and it is a devastating scene out here, and hundreds of people were out here includ

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mcgee said, why doesn't cambridge apprises for answers on the industrial working, the children and womenin the mines. and so you begin with the approach slavery argument that is directed in norway. and i think it will be a mistake to point it the abolitionists or consciously trying to, you know, justify bad things in england, but there's of very complex relationship there between the two. is the part of your question? >> it was incredibly profitable. >> as the other thing. actually, one of the things that we probably won't have time to talk about the movie in the books he mumbled one of the things that troubles me a bit about 12 years has laid, in in the book is that, as you know, the free northern from the york state who was kidnapped and taken to the south for 12 years, he argues that the cruelty is mainly the fault of the system, that you're bound to have people who will exploit slaves if you have a system like this, but he's arguing the system is very uneconomical. and if you take solomon on cribs views on free labor versus labor , you would not appeal to explain why slavery in the s

ceo of the americas unit, skip mcgee, is stepping down and joe gold will take his place.nother story we are following closely, newly installed nba commissioner adam silver faces his first big test today at 2:00 p.m. with his statement on the future of the los angeles clippers and their owner donald sterling. he is under fire because a recording where he said he did not want his girlfriend bringing black people to games. everyone from magic johnson to disney ceo bob iger is waiting in. >> i was appalled, frankly. we live in a world where i believe there is no room for racial intolerance, discrimination, or racism, not at all. a public figure or in business, there is no room for it. i am joined by ira and still with me is gregory rayborn. should there be a no tolerance policy? >> i think everyone agrees there is no room for what donald sterling said, those sentiments, but the question is what do you do about it -- what we will hear is adam silver announcing the max penalty according to the rules, whatever he interprets them to be. >> what are max penalties? >> it depends. h

for finally settled a deal 5.5 billion when it bought kerr-mcgee, the refiner.put up a high note. obviously, it is moving about. i want to talk about barnes & noble's. so tougher barnes & noble. >> when was the last time you went there and bought something? >> i went to browse -- >> there you go. >> and that was probably the first time in two years. >> i go there to check out magazines when i need to kill time. first custom knitters -- procrastinators. more than one million people the last day to sign up for health care. at minetterector health solutions joins us. welcome. what are the early indications the late sign-ups were the young , healthy people that the system needs to work effectively? >> we don't know for sure, but most likely, the answer is yes. if you think about who comes in first, those who really need the coverage right now. we saw some of that at the end of last year. you think about the people waiting until the last minute, they probably don't need the coverage yet, still thinking about whether they want to come in the system. i expect the avera

just yesterday, we announced a record $5.15 billion settlement with kerr mcgee corporation and certain affiliates and their parent and a darko petroleum corporation. this represents the largest recovery for cleanup of environmental contamination in the history of the department of justice. itled h holds the company and i subsidiary accountable. and fraudulent attempts to evade responsibility for its actions. it marks a critical step in our effort to protect the american people from all forms of fraud to combat corporate misconduct and to safeguard the environment. now, as we move forward, i'm eager to work with this subcommittee, with the entire congress, to secure the timely passage of the president's budget which provides a total of $27.4 billion in discussion fre resources. $2.1 billion for discretionary state, local and tribal systems programs. this support will be essential to ensuring we can protect the american people and strengthen our criminal justice system. as you know, fiscal year 2014 mark, a critical year in the implementation of the prison rape elimination act. as states

sites contaminated nor decades by chemical companies are targeted and justice department officials say mcgeeed to dodge paying for the cleanup by splitting up the company but the oil and gas operations which were sold to anadarko are still profitable and will have to pay. the word of the day on wall street is jobs, the monthly job reports is due out later this morning and expect hiring to pick up in march following a rough winter, they are predicting 200,000 new jobs added last month but that may not be enough to get the economy back on track. >> the u.s. economy really needs 7.5 million jobs to get to a prerecession unemployment rate at full labor market participation rates, that is slow progress of the current rate of hiring. you will not see a crazy increase to 300,000 jobs created per month but if you did and recovery would still be years and years away. >> reporter: we will have complete analysis of the jobs report when it's released around 8:30 eastern. on water street it's up 24 points up and the dow starting the day at 16572. the s&p 500 kicks off the day at 1888. the nasdaq is at 42

michelle mcgee and her family are happy to be alive after riding out the tornado inside their home. >> you could hear the cracks and the pops all around us and those doors just kind of eased on top of us and just kind of made a little tepee surrounding us, like angels just holding those doors right there is how it felt. >> this is all that remains. >> this is my life that i worked so hard for, and it's just -- laying there in pieces. so what do you do now? >> so she's picking up those pieces. >> mom. >> holding on to reminders of life before the storm. and unfortunately, we're going to see another repeat of this. now, here is what we are looking at for today. already on the radar such a slow moving system. this is the same system that moved through our area here in alabama last night and is now pushing its way all the way up into central georgia. and what is going to happen with this is we have the slow moving low pressure system. it is a powerful system up to the north. it is moving ever so slowly. it is going to interact with the jet stream. that is going to make for a strong sheer.