jim mclaughlin, let me go to you. you're the republican here. why does one wing of the gop or someone in the gop with a big mouth want to go after chris christie? he's not the enemy. >> no question about it. it's ridiculous. because chris christie is the most popular governor in the country. he's got 70-plus percent job approval ratings right now. and you know what the best part is? chris christie doesn't care what the washington insiders say. he doesn't care what the establishment says. that's why he has the numbers he has right now. and the truth of the matter is, i think he hit the nail right on the head. right now, barack obama needs chris christie a lot more than chris christie needs barack obama. >> obama -- obama is going to new jersey. he loves to go to new jersey. try to get away from all these scandals inside the beltway in washington, d.c. but he can't. he can't. not even chris christie can help him. >> the only person talking about the so-called scandals is you, larry, and a few other people on the conservative side. >> liberals are

kaplan mclaughlin architects [speaker not understood] were selected through a competitive process for design services on the cruise ship terminal back in 2009, november of 2009. the contract has been amended five times through dpw as the project progressed. the final proposed -- the final and sixth amendment would increase the contract from 9.v 95 million to 11.[speaker not understood] million triggering board of supervisors approval. this is included in the proposed cruise terminal budget. the budget analyst has looked at the contract and the reason for the changes ~ and finds them to be reasonable. and the additional contract will be used for phase 2 -- the amendment will be used for phase 2 of the cruise ship terminal project so we request that you approve -- you authorize our executive director to execute this final amendment. >> okay, thank you very much, ms. forbes. colleagues, any questions? okay, we have a budget analyst report. mr. rose, item number 4, please. >> mr. chairman, members of the committee, on page 9 of our report, ms. forbes referred to table 4 of our report wher

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our aaron mclaughlin has been following the story from there. good morning and good afternoon to you there in london. i know from overnight there were several arrests in the case. what can you tell us? >> reporter: hi, poppy. well, on saturday three additional arrests in connection with the woolwich murder investigation. we understand the arrests were made on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder. two of the individuals actually had to be tasered before being taken into custody in an investigation that is complex and rapidly developing. since wednesday some eight individuals have been taken into custody. of those eight individuals three of them, two women, and one man have been released from police custody. the man was released on bail. now as for the two suspects that were arrested at the scene of that grisly murder, well, they remain in stable condition in two separate hospitals under armed guard in london. poppy? >> erin, tell us a little bit more about this mi-5 connection or whether or not mi-5 there in london solicited one of the key su

in less than a week, the president initiated greystone. >> mclaughlin: we all assembled in the cabinet room, and the president lays down about 12 decisions, just like that, machine-gun fashion. >> interviewer: what did he say? >> mclaughlin: well, of course, the thing that stands out in my memory, because it hit me vividly, was... he said, "i want cia in there first." >> narrator: that day, president bush signed a key document, a finding authorizing cofer black and the cia to wage a covert international war. >> radsan: it was a very comprehensive finding. it was generally worded. it was: "go out and get the bad guys; disrupt them, kill them, interrogate them." this was an overarching authorization of the cia. >> rizzo: i had never ever seen a presidential authorization as far reaching and as aggressive in scope. it was... it was simply extraordinary. >> townsend: in a post-9/11 world, we weren't going to be so prissy. we were going to work and do what we needed to do. no matter how difficult or undesirable it was, we were going to do what we needed to do to get the information we neede

erin mclaughlin, cnn, london. >> a lot of drama at cannes this year.atement about the jewelry heist, none of the jewels stolen were for actresses to wear at the film festival. the value of the diamonds was much less than what the media had been reporting and they have been reporting about $1 million. we'll wait to get that exact figure from them. >>> meantime, president obama will be here in atlanta today. he'll address graduates at moore house university. the appearance follows a very tough week that the president had playing defense on several fronts. >>> coming up, a brand-new cnn poll looks at how president obama is doing so far in this second term. we'll have those results for you this morning on "state of the union" with candy crowley beginning at 9:00 a.m. eastern. >>> he was once known as a hero cop. he was even invited to watch president obama's first address to congress right there alongside the first lady. now, he is under arrest, facing shocking charges. >>> and any landing you can walk away from is a good landing and that definitely applie

. >> and you do great production work for the mclaughlin group and othert? >> correct. >> now you know nancy reagan firsthand. >> yes. of her influ accomplishments of his administration >> you think she served also to strengthen his spine or do you think his spine was quite strong independently? the velvet glove. she needed to be. he would be the good cop she was the bad cop when it came to dealing with staff. >> do you think they ever had disagreements? something. >> sure. >> did she take any negative position on anything that he decision-making process an when they made a decisio they stuck with it jointly. she would make her views known. a good friend of mineaid fo about a four-year period and that gave me a real good window into the relationship between nancy, the way the white house is run, the schedule >> you think that her influence over ronald regan our current president? the -- this presidency, laura bush is very muc involved in the details of policy and decision-making in president bush's speeches >> there are differences o opinion at least their p

. >>> from washington the mclaughlin group. brought to you by seamans, we are building them to last, seamans, answers. . >>> issue one, internal revenue service target range. today we took the first step by requesting and accepting the acting commissioner of the internal revenue service because given the controversy southering this audit, it is important to restore confidence going forward. i reviewed the watchdog's report and the misconduct that it uncovered it inexcusable. americans have a right to be angry about it and i am angry about it. i will not tolerate this kind of behavior, in any agency but especially in the internal revenue service, given the power and reach it has for all of our lives. >> the internal revenue service had fully targeted the special scrutiny conservative groups like the tea party. president barack obama announced the resignation of the head of the agency. steven miller, its acting commissioner will step down next month and eric holder announced they will determine where the laws were broken and so t

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on mclaughlin and she couldn't understand what was happening to her and stone you to she didn't complain about anything but i noticed something strange night mirrors she woke up that night but was afraid of the dark went to sleep only what the lights on. but the wall then she began to drink a lot and west to the bathroom very often. i could understand what was happening so i went to the doctor to find out what her blood sugar level was incredibly high at the thirty eight but i'd never even heard that that was possible. that everybody thinking even though she has these serious health issues and the situation is serious enough that you could have given her up i go couldn't do that. i just couldn't. i can't live without her. i can't be without her the words. were one out. she keeps telling me my mom will die without you that's what the child says. and that my mom very much writes. i give her honks. this leap together sometimes. i can't live without her. it's for the little one. we didn't know or types we had to guess. what it was we think it'll fit yeah yeah that's what mommy shows everythi

let's go now to jason mclaughlin, a storm chaser, and has been chasing this storm all day. tell us where you are right now. >> right now i'm about an hour east of shawnee. actually i would say stayed with that storm as it moved east to keep warning to those residents out ahead of it. that storm has kind of dissipated. i'm headed back towards that shawnee direction now. >> and jason, you're going back towards shawnee, but you have been following these storms all day. where did you pick up, and where did you -- you ended up where you are now, but where did you start earlier? >> my day started right off there in edmond, oklahoma, which is where the first tornado touched down. we were out there with good warning, had about a 20-minute lead time before the tornado touched down in edmond. that tornado lifted and edmond is on the northeast side of oklahoma city. that tornado lifted, and immediately we had just a very large tornado, around half a mile wide touch down, and it continued to track just north of i-40, and that's the storm that i stayed on, and then the southern storm fo

ii will use verizon as an exampe and i get all of john mclaughlin's phone bills. i can see all the calls you made, when you made them and to whom. >> are there more adulterous men or women. >> i think there is more men. i think the women are fast on the rise. they are coming out of the closet. this whole desperate housewife type of mentality. women commit adultery. women have affairs. no doubt about it. >> thanks so much for being my guest. >> thank youor having me. >> be well. >> and you. >> consuelo: this week on wealthtrack, contrarian investor robert kleinschmidt is known for galloping away from the herd to find hidden opportunities for the toqueville fund. where is this great investor looking now. an exclusive ride with robert kleinschmidt is next on consuelo mack's wealthtrack.

i use verizon as an example and i get all of john mclaughlin's phone bills. i can see all the calls you made, when you made them and to whom. >> are there more adulterous men or women. >> i think there is more men. i think the women are fast on the rise. they are coming out of the closet. this whole desperate housewife type of mentality. women commit adultery. women have affairs. no doubt about it. >> thanks so much for being my guest. >> thank you for having me. >> be well. >> and you. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> hello, i'm llewellyn king, host of "white house chronicle" which is coming right up. but first, a few thoughts of my own. we had an extraordinary week in washington in which the british prime minister david cameron visited the president, but never were two men having such difficulties who stood in public together. normally in these head of state visit, you have one supporting the other, each trying to look good to their own people with a little reflected glory. this time around cameron was possibly in more tr

we've got some private companies like jay mclaughlin that have high end customers and they are doingl. they wouldn't be doing as well as they might have been doing, but they're doing remarkably well. but in general, i'd say, and the broad lines guys it's going to be mediocrity. i think jcpenney will be a train wreck. >> tom, you know on one side you see that there's -- the tax issue is definitely a head wind but we haven't seen any inflation, so, the cost of goods has been very low. it's been disinflation for a lot of the companies. is that an extreme, you know wind at the tail for them? >> actually, the way it works, generally for retailers over time, retailers like to see modest inflation, because generally, you know, if things go up by x dollars, you can pick up a couple more margin dollars, by having the same margin percentage, and thus have a greater contribution. so, when things come down in this competitive environment, retails tend to come down, as well, and put pressure on gross margins, so, i don't think the softness of the cost size is going to offer that much help to the

gail mclaughlin says they have eliminated contributions to pro chevron candidates. meeting is set to begin at 8:00 this morning at chevron headquarters in san ramon. last night voters overwhelmingly approved the city's decision to raise minimum wage. why some county lawmakers want to raise the minimum wage and by how much. >>> right now it is 6:38 if you are joining us, there is a big problem on the bay bridge. >> we had a crash at the base of the bay bridge and they moved it but the bay bridge took a hit. things are beginning to move again and it is better than it was and you can see cars are moving through and we are hoping for a little bit of improvement. san mateo looks good so far and this may be your choice to get to the peninsular and highway 101. the rest of the contra costa commute is not that bad after the walnut creek interchange, let's go to steve. >>> a few breaks, with cloudy skies in contra costa, generally overcast, some fog, a little breezy and warmer weather takes it back to the warmest day which is saturday. cool and breezy and temperatures are no

august 28, 1945, when lieutenant rod johnson, no relation to captain johnson, relieved lieutenant mclaughlin as officer of the deck. the segundo was on the surface 100 miles off honchu, heading south toward tokyo. wait the 14th day of the crease fire and not one enemy warship had been sighted since the principal began. it was a cold night and visibility wag poor, but the ocean was calm and lieutenant johnson decided to take advantage of what little moonlight there was to scan the horizon. when he first spotted an object south of the sub, johnson thought his eyes were playing tricks on him. but the more he looked, the more certain he became that something was out there. meanwhile, alex leach was sipping coffee in the conning tower when a blip appeared on his radar screen. leach was surprised how large the on was, something that size should have been picked up at 15,000 yards, yet it had not until it was within a third of that distance. leaving the few steps to get under the bridge cap, leach shouted, radar contact 5500 yards. at first nobody was sure what they were dealing with. no u.s. ships

with groans disease, which is an autoimmune disease of the gastrointestinal tract as well as most mclaughlin who is another young woman who suffers from chronic fatigue, fiber myalgia, and a host of, but conditions. you'll also hear from dr. sarah woodman, a psychiatrist to specializes in treating patients with chronic pain as well as dr. gerald right, an internist down the road at beth israel who has done a lot of research and writing of the early aids movement. so of the share cornwell is a 20 year-old woman living with crones disease. when she first began her diagnostic journey, she was a middle school students to my pain. she underwent a variety of tests for endoscopy is to perry and follow as x-rays hopeful that each step with bernard closer to an answer. when the test and consultations initiated her while the test -- while the tests and consultations initiator into the world the patient had, they also signaled the start of an unfortunate but all too common cycle. dealing with the dismissal of her persistence system -- symptoms. she was told she had reflexed disease, when their problems

as well as melissa mclaughlin zanetti and women who suffers from chronic fatigue and a host of comorbid conditions. will also hear from dr. sutter who is a psychiatrist who specializes in treating patients with chronic pain as well as doctor joe wright, who was an intern is just down the road who has done a lot of research and writing on the early its movement. so, alicia cornwell is a 20 year old woman living with crohn's disease. when she first began her diagnostic journey, she was a middle school student with stomach pains. she underwent a variety of tests, from and ask these two barium swallow x-rays, hopeful that each step would bring her closer to an answer. when the tests and consultations initiated her, while the test and consultation initiated her into the world of nationhood, they also signal the start of an unfortunate but all too common cycle. in dealing with the dismissal of her persistent symptoms. she was told she had reflux disease, but when her problems continued, so did the attention. as the years went on, dismissal took on a more problematic event, as her physical sym

joining me now are storm chaser jason mclaughlin and david k. johnston, author and columnist.n chasing tornadoes for 13 years and many of those tornadoes actually hit schools. do you think requiring safe rooms could make a difference? >> i do, absolutely. i think it's just a numbers game. so far we've been lucky with the few number of schools that have been hit and it's really a matter of time. we have 1,200 tornadoes a year. we keep playing with fire and sooner or later it will bite us. >> listen to a mother whose son kyle was killed in the moore tornado. >> i know the schools did what they thought they could do, but with us living in oklahoma, tornado shelters should be in every school. it should be, you know, there should be a place that if this ever happened again during school that kids can get to a safe place, that we don't have to sit there and go through rubble and rubble and rubble and may not ever find what we're looking for. >> david, you and a lot of other people say it's way too expensive but on a personal level how do you explain that to that mother? >> you can't

homicide of the year a deadly shooting near santee elementary school, not far from audubon and mclaughlinn his late teens, early 20s was found shot to death on the sidewalk. >>> and damian trujillo is gathering information on the scene of the shooting. he'll have a live report when we're back at 7:25. >> get breaking news on air and online at nbcbayarea.com. that's what's happening. "today in the bay," thanks for waking up with us. >>> good morning. developing now, who sent them? letters laced with ricin sent to new york city mayor michael bloomberg. the fbi takes the lead in the case. live with new information this morning. >> i'm innocent, an american mother behind bars in mexico speaks out, telling nbc news she is desperate to see her family. >> i just want to go home. >> could new surveillance video help set her free? >> and oh, mother, from icy water to barbed wire, the ultimate optical course known as the tough mudder. it's a dirty job, but we'll take it on live today,

i want to go right to london and our erin mclaughlin. >> hi, poppy.ee individuals were arrested in connection with the investigation into the woolwich murder. those individuals arrested on conspiracy to commit murder. two of them were tasered before being taken into custody. we don't know why they were tasered. and officials are also not naming these particular suspects in an investigation that is turning out to be incredibly complex and fast moving. in total some eight individuals have been arrested since wednesday. of those individuals, three of them, two women and one man, have been released from police custody. the man was released on bail. now, as for the two suspects that were arrested at that grisly crime scene on wednesday, they remain in hospital in stable condition under armed guard. poppy. >> erin staying on top of it for us. thanks so much, erin. appreciate it. coming up in the next half hour of the show today, we're going to talk about the issue of extremism. how does extremism in any religion lead someone to commit violent acts in the na

i want to bring in jerry mclaughlin. that story is microsoft. they can out with the x box 1.re i got this right. the x box 1. it is brand new, very different, what they want to do, but microsoft wants to do is make that the hub, the entertainment hub to our homes. i want your judgment. can they do that with the x box 1? >> they made great strides with the 360 which came out we years ago. a lot of numbers here, the x box 1, the first one cannot eight years ago, it has the processors which makes it faster and better than the computer at home, they wanted to run in your living room. is an interesting ploy. stuart: i want your judgment. does this make it as the new hub, the must have called for entertainment in your home? >> i am going to say yes it does. some great move to get entertainment already, the new one will go further. talking about live tv series just for this product. stuart: i am going to break away and go to ben bernanke who has just been asked the first question. i you going to keep printing? listen in. >> the purchase program, subsequent to that we are going to fo

cnn's erin mclaughlin is in london. what can you tell us about this?iend of the murder suspect gave an interview to the bbc last night. in that interview, he described a conversation he had with him some six months ago. during that conversation he apparently told him he had been approached by mi5. he had been asked to work for them. an offer he declined. >> i think on his return back, subsequently he was followed up by mi5. they came to his house. he mentioned they wanted to ask whether he knew certain individuals. that was the initial issue. but after him saying he didn't know these individuals, they asked if he would be interested in working for them. >> reporter: while we know that he was known to security services here in britain regarding the specific claims the security source telling cnn that mi5 would never comment on the kinds of allegations made in that interview. shortly following that interview, abu was himself arrested by counterterrorism pleas on suspicion of terrorism-related offenses not connected to the these crimes. >> erin, thanks so

santee drive, car kneelon, audubon, mclaughlin all likely affected by the traffic control in the areariff's department vehicle north 85. >> thank you very much. another local news update in half an hour. we'll see you then. ♪ >>> 8:00 now on this thursday morning. it is may 30th, 2013. we've got a great crowd out on the plaza. hot day in new york city. going up to 90 degrees. but tomorrow, i think it'll be closer to 93. >> wow. >> this would be a great day for -- >> oh, i'm glad you're in the mood, turns out we have an icy water. we'll be getting in that water. more on that in a minute. >>> but also coming up, it's with you all the time, the purse or your wallet, or the murse in your case. there was a recent study said some purse handles are as dirty as a public toilet seat. we decided to put that concept to the test. >> what are you doing with your purse? >> it does raise some questions. but we put some purses around our office to the test and show you what we found out. >> we heard dirty as a toilet seat. that got our attention. >>> also ahead, a stunning revelation. james lipton is

mclaughlin was the first independent photojournalist on the scene apart from the "sandy .bee's" photojournaliste told me basically you have to get down there. the hesitation and the first news alert i got, i was at the elementary school here in connecticut. was from news i got cbs news alerts. it says "shooting in connecticut school. children are victims." and anyone with a child in connecticut school, you think "is that my child?" i called the school and they said they knew nothing about that. then i got calls from editors. "are you available?" i made sure my son was home safely and i went down there late in the afternoon. everything was from the perspective of a parent, a photojournalist, and somebody who left the profession and came back and now brings this perspective of absolute the victims.or so, for me when i got there, and what was really strange -- remember, i have been to all these countries. i have been in the middle, before anybody went to syria or iraq, all those places, i was there before the united states military got involved. i was there for the reason of getting iconic images

mclaughlin was the first independent photojournalist on the scene apart from the "sandy hook bee"'s photojournalist. she told me basically you have to get down there. the hesitation and the first news alert i got, i was at the elementary school here in connecticut. the first news i got was from cbs news alerts. it says "shooting in connecticut school. children are victims." and anyone with a child in connecticut school, you think "is that my child?" i called the school and they said they knew nothing about that. then i got calls from editors. "are you available?" i made sure my son was home safely and i went down there late in the afternoon. everything was from the perspective of a parent, a photojournalist, and somebody who left the profession and came back and now brings this perspective of absolute sensitivity for the victims. so, for me when i got there, and what was really strange -- remember, i have been to all these countries. i have been in the middle, before anybody went to syria or iraq, all those places, i was there before the united states military got involved. i was there for the reas