it means zero prosperity and no money and elle mcpherson doesn't become elle mcpherson. >> number one, young girls don't listen to anything but their i-pods. >> sexism. i am crying sexism. >> it is cool to say socialism. that's why anybody who is an under grad always talks about socialism and carries around their books. >> you know what it is called? fleavage. girls, go out and get some sun, no sun block. >>> on that note, do you have a comment on the show? 212-462-5 050. still to come, the half time report from andy levy. >> tonight's half time report is sponsored by cherry blossom. the flower of the chap niece cherry tree often for ornamental use. thanks, cherry blossom. >>> welcome back. let's find out if we have anything wrong so far. let's go to andy levy. hi, andy. >> how was your st. paddy's day. >> uneventful, thankfully. >> did you walk around with your pot of gold? >> that's what i call it. i know i have a problem. sometimes i can't get to the bathroom. >> i understand. president obama says he will do a cameo in an entourage movie. nice job getting your anti-bush joke in the

elle mcpherson, i met my wife at elle mcpherson's birthday party. lo green, and he starts to say it it and flips the bird which he did and he goes can i use the language and looks at someone who gave him the nod and said, go ahead and do it. >> eric, couldn't that mean he's a conservative? he's at a democratic fundraiser and he's giving him the bird. >> that's true. >> and explain that-- >> and the campaign, and got the information, go ahead. >> when it comes to hollywood, nobody gives themselves for awards than the press gives themselves awards, than hollywood givers them award. every four weeks there's another awards ceremony and they're filled with their self-importance. i would agree they don't move that many votes. one endorsement in 2008, but just in the democratic primary. when oprah winfrey decided to go for president obama rather than hillary clinton. the thing that george clooney said, he yes, that democrats aren't just-- they're not good enough messengers, i'm going to stick up for the democratic messengers. it's not their fault. the poli

mcpherson disagreed, emphasizing the importance of lincoln's prosecuting the war successfully. edward better len of the university of maryland wrote a rejoinder in which he said in effect the slaves did too free themselves. i find this exchange very reassuring because it shows that you can become an eminent historian even though you slept through the high school biology lecture where the teacher explained symbiosis. two beings that live in a mutually beneficial relationship. edward berlin came close when he wrote" steadily as opportunities arose slaves risked all for freedom by abandoning their owners, coming uninvited into union lines, and offering their lives and labor in the federal cause, slaves forced federal soldiers at the lowest level to recognize their importance to the union's success. that understanding traveled quickly up the chain of command." that's it in a nutshell. the union army afforded the slaves a place of refuge without the labor of the escaped slaves the union advance in the mississippi valley would have stalled somewhere just south of louisville and st. l

elle mcpherson told news 4 about why she wanted to produce and host the new nbc show fashion star. >> you know, i've wanted to create a show in america that is about the retail business, about building brands, the business behind selling clothes. i've seen a lot of programs about how to make clothes, but never how to sell them. i've been working on this idea for quite a long time. finally seeing come to fruition as executive producer has been a great milestone for me. >> this is a milestone for mcpherson, and a whole new way for viewers to interact with the program. the designs let you see -- that you see on the show will be available in stores the very next day. mark barger has more from behind the scenes of "fashion star." ♪ i'm on the edge of glory >> reporter: lady gaga's lyrics describe the possibilities for the competitors in "fashion star". >> it's a fresh take on shopping and brand building. business in america. >> reporter: supermodel elle mcpherson hosts the show which features 14 designers. each one trying to get approval. >> tell me about this. >> not only from celebrity m

james mcpherson, the author of "battle cry of freedom," writing in 1995, noted a tendency in the previous 15 years to sleight the role played by abraham lincoln in the end of slavery and to say, in effect, the slaves freed themselves. mcpherson disagreed, emphasizing the importance of lincoln's insistence on prosecuting the war successfully. excuse me. ieber berlin of the university of maryland wrote a rejoinder in which he said, in effect, that the slaves did, too, free themselves. i find this exchange very reassuring because it shows that you can become an eminent historian even though you slept through the high school biology lecture where the teacher explained symbiosis. two beings that live in a mutually beneficial relationship. ira berlin came close whenwrotes arose slaves risked all for freedom by abandoning their owners, coming union lines, and offering their lives and labor in the federal cause. slaves forced federal soldiers at the lowest level to recognize their importance to the union's success. that understanding traveled quickly up the chain of command. that's it in a nutshe

to dealing with mclaren park, but nobody lives there, and i feel quite comfortable with the fact mcpherson -- that supervisor c oen into a good job that f, but that would be putting the hard work of the window. there is a ploy, a lot of people who have come to see have not been told it would get rid of petrero hill. i thing you should be aware. >> >my name is steven hooper. any of the neighborhood in district 11 could claim they lived since the district. i would like to speak in support of one particular item, and that is it per to the border should be further south. i have learned a lot. the demographics, everything points to holloway as being the barrier between districts 7 and district 11. i would like to say i support what supervisor cohen says. it is a question of a community that extends well beyond into visitation valley that would be denied its sense of unity in order to accommodate other people across town who want to influence by manipulating the map, so that is my point. get holloway is of great barrier. it works. >> thank you. >> i was a member of the redistricting taskforce in

we have appreciated the perspective and time given by nag and its executive director jim mcpherson. and several attorneys general to inform our thinking on challenges and opportunities that we face now because our offices transitioning from an appointed attorney general to an elected attorney general. and we've been glad to join and help the district have an ability to have its voice heard on national matters, an issue of particular importance to us in light of the minimal and unjust situation that we have no voting representation in congress. we've also been fortunate on behalf of our 600,000 citizens to have the opportunity to work on and join in some of the important multi-state settlements that our collective resources have made possible. most of you have been in washington before, and i want to welcome you back. for those of you here for the first time, i encourage to take advantage of the wonderful things in our city, the wonderful things it has to offer, including historical and scenic site, good food, shopping, and other taxable events. we've had an exciting year here in the

elle mcpherson turns 49. all along stay on top of the late zwroechlts on those stories and others as they break on nbc. tonight, watch brian williams with nbc "nightly news." finally, here is a look at what's coming up later this morning on the "today" show. george zimmerman's attorney speaks out about police video from the night trayvon martin was shot. charlie sheen opens up in a live interview one year after his public meltdown. keep it here for news, weather, sports and more. i'm lynn berry. thanks for watching early today, your first stop today on your nbc station. have a good one.

we were going to ride to atlanta and get off at fort mcpherson and walk to fort benning 149 miles and do it at the same time. we walked from atlanta to benning. three days, three and a half days so that got us down to tone and then we started out jump training which was very rigorous, as a matter of fact, the school tried everything in the world to break our spirits and they couldn't do about 97% qualified for our wings and that is the way we started sir. >> okay, thankyo, self? how did you start? >> i don't know whether i can compete with that. >> yes? >> my life was simpler. i graduated from high school in 1938 in the middle of the great depression. my father and i decided i would join the navy. if you served on a capital ship you would learn plumbing, carpenter work anything that you could think of would be award the ship. so that sounded reasonable and i went to the recruiting office and they did the usual things. i took a physical and they sent a senior chief out to the house to see how i was living. they want to be sure that they had a nice boy come in. they told me it was relat

james mcpherson, general mclearnen will rise to a point and off he goes, lou wallace, ben herafame will start on a pretty good rise but have some troubles. but the generals and the colonels and regimental commanders are all learning their trade here but more importantly, the men are learning their trade. the union army that landed at ft. henry on the 5th of january, most of them were pretty novice guys. just learning the drill and how to fire and so forth. a number of these guys have fought missouri, and they have had some combat experience. not two years, but they have some. they've been under fire. att. donelson and ft. henry, they'll get more. six weeks after ft. donelson they have shilo. more experience. you are seeing the core, the nugget, the army of the tennessee being born. the army of the tennessee is going to be one of the most successful armies in the union and in the civil war. those guys are going to march to ft. donelson to shilo, vicksburg, chattanooga, to atlanta to savannah up through the carolinas. these guys are going to be everywhere. and they're going to be leaving

colonel logan will go on to hire james mcpherson. the general will rise to a point and off he goes. lou wallace. he will start on a pretty good rise. but he'll have some troubles. but the generals and the regiment are all learning their trade here and what is more important is the men are learning their trade. a number of these guys fought missouri and they have had some combat experience. not two years. they've been under fire. at fort donelson, they're going to get more experience. six weeks after fort donelson they have more experience. you are seeing here the core, the nugget of the army of the tennessee being born. and the army of the tennessee is going to be one of the most successful armies in the union and in the civil war. those guys are going to march from fort donelson to siloh to vicksburg to chattanooga, atlanta, savannah, unthrough the ca carolinas. they're going to be everywhere and leaving a trail of victories in their path. the army of the tennessee, rock hard hitting victorious type guys, they have their setbacks obviously. but this is where that army is born. righ

mcpherson square one of the longest lasting occupations ended up becoming a microcosm of society itself with similar issues from timeliness to crime. still joel and many others here remain under terser today is january third two thousand and twelve. year the revolution as i'd like to call it. it is close to. maybe twenty six twenty seven degrees outside but it wasn't the cold but these are the actual notices that were posted on the occupiers tents setting off a firestorm of both anger and support and the construction of this tent of dreams. most people did end up leaving joel included i guess the thing that maybe stopped would be there was the raid. that was i mean that was i mean they have infrared helicopters flying around at night you know having like little formal vision on the tents to make sure the people are in the tent sleeping but even police crackdowns have not mentioned the end of occupy wall street and this is make their sense where today nearly six months after the occupy wall street movement began a few tense remain but it's largely symbolic joel and the others say the occ

linda mcpherson writes perhaps schools should be empowered to evaluate parents and post those ratingss teachers have 40 children in class, can't be everything to every student. figure out the needs of one stay tuned times 40, impossible. >>> perpetual nrkz yrkz erkz rrkz says i hate the new pay for performance idea. any other job have 130 to 150 variables. nope. i don't think so. that's going to wrap things up for this morning. share your thoughts on facebook and twitter.

linda mcpherson writes perhaps schools should be empowered to evaluate parents and post those ratingss teachers have

gentlemen such as at that time colonel logan will go on to high rank, james mcpherson. general mccler nor, he will rise to a point and off he goes. lou wallace, of ben hur fame he'll start on a pretty good rise but he'll have some troubles. but generals and the kernel colonels are learning their trade. the union army that landed at fort henry on the fifth of january, most of them were pretty novice guys. they're just learning the drill and how to fire and so forth. a number of these guys have fought in missouri. and they have had some combat experience. not two years but they have some. they've been under fire at fort henry and fort donelson they're going to get some more of that experience. six weeks after fort donelson they have shilo. more experience. you are seeing here the core, the nugget, of the army of the tennessee being born. and the army of the tennessee is going to be one of the most successful armies in the union and in the civil war. those guys are going to march from cairo to fort donelson to shilo to corinth to vicksburg, to chattanooga, to atlanta, to s

mcpherson and then walk to ft. benning 149 miles, and we were going to do it the same time that the -- 2nd battalion did from decorps to benning -- to atlanta. we walked from atlanta to bening. three days. 3 1/2 days. so that got us down to t.o.n.e. and then we started out jump training which was very rigorous. matter of fact, the jump school tried everything in the world to break our spirits. they couldn't do it. most of us, just about 97% qualified for our wings. and that's where we started, sir. >> okay. thank you, ed. norm, how about yourself? where did you start? >> i don't know that i can compete with that. my life was a bit simpler. i graduated from high school in 1938 and that was still in the middle of the depression. so in a conversation with my father who was an engineer, we decided that i would join the navy because if you served on a capital ship, you would certainly learn anything that would be instrumental in working in civilian life. plumbing, carpenter work, anything you can think of would be aboar

market the plans on the initiatives taken up by the new president by the reelected president bloody mcpherson of course and peter weston for months on capitol looks at two possible scenarios. well the best case scenario would obviously be that we have a very formal to put in coming in and that he also gets a cabinet that is filled with sort of liberal minded individuals like to dream may be profitable have a role in the government as well and that they focus on structure is just reforms also they look at the state owned companies improving transparency that will be a major companies that will be tremendously positive for the market but their return to a police state would be the absolute worst scenario i think that's a very unlikely scenario but that obviously would mean that the rest of the deficit away from russia. higher secular to what's happening on the markets this hour the r.t.s. has managed to come back it was down a bit last hour now around point three percent my six point seven percent and trading is actually pretty thin with out of see big volumes ahead of women's day which means t

. >> sure this is stuff you will see at mcpherson square for the new campaign for the walk campaign,got pictures of students you can't spell addition without an mba. it sail starts with know how and know how to get ahead and start what you know which is the opposite of walk. >> we talked about the awards you have won internationally and nationally is it something now where obviously the word is out there everybody is coming to you they want you to make them more successful. >> absolutely we get a lot of clients people calling us and now is our kind of time to transform the city for metro to projects we are doing with real estate clients and new condos the market is back this is a new one we just got for lewis on 14th and yew it is very stylish >> i get it. >> we are doing all the branding work for that banners on the site and on to the website we have stuff over here, as you can see we take it from print to digital and get everybody eating cake and winking and dogs tails wagging and fun stuff. >> this is the second place i have been this week that it is about let them eat cake. >> it

. >> we are joined by the host and executive producer, nicole richie, elle mcpherson.t quite made it yet. take me through how the show works? >> we have three great retailers, macy's, sax 5th avenue and h & m. the contestants are home makers, making clothes but not in department stores. they want to get in front of macy's, for example. so they present their garments on a fashion show. t-shirts, jeans, leather jackets with the help of the mentors and they are bought or not by macy's saks and h & m. >> they must be like sponges. really open based on the fact that you have been successful in your career. >> you do have to be -- there is a difference from being an artist to being a brand. we want to transition them to be a brand. you don't just want to design a $10,000 gown and never hear from them again. this is about clothes america wants to wear. >> and you can buy tonight. >> it's about helping them understand it's not about being a one trick pony. they are learning to build a brand, an image and create an aura around who you are. >> people at home say how can you buy

a few hours ago they gathered at mcpherson square and marched over to sally mae and the department ofducation to show their demands. the protestors say there are egregious inequalities in our education system. >>> fire department response times should soon be reduced for folks in loudoun county. a groundbreaking was held today for a four bay fire station and shared spaces for operations and is expected to open in the spring of 2013. >>> still ahead on 9news passengers talk about their nightmare at sea after their crippled cruise ship is finally towed back to port. >> what a gorgeous day. high temperature made it to 70 degrees. we'll come back, talk about big changes and when you'll need your umbrella and we might even see a snowflake. >>> up next caught on tape a tour group gets up close and personal with that grizzly bear. >>> don't forget we're always on at www.wusa9.com. stay with us. we'll be right back. >>> caught on tape a close encounter with a grizzly. larry griffiths and his wife were on a group trip to a partial park in alaska when a grizzly -- to a national park in las when

mcpherson, i am brow -- >> first of all, i am proud to exercise my right of return. "yes, you are insane. your agenda is more out there and you are approaching more of an agenda then you intend to. >> if it is not work what i do. i get up in the morning and i think i am going to have the opportunity -- i was not that happy about waking up. [laughter] >> congratulations, chris. winning an award is an amazing thing. we are all very proud of it -- we are all very proud of you in the news division. you are a great journalist. every guest that comes on page you, which is good. that makes people watch. you may president clinton angry. and prevent obama. but that means you are really good at what you do. it is possible to make it to 10 years. all i occasionally do you have a case of diva-itis. when you did the cookbook and started hustling back on our show, that was sort of irritating. [laughter] [applause] >> thank you, all. i have to say watching some of those early videos from literally 30 years ago was kind of interesting. it is like seeing a sign you never knew you had

at princeton, james mcpherson, the great historian of the civil war, was my thesis adviser. one of my teachers at princeton was a visiting professor, eric phoner, the great american historian. >> host: columbia now. >> guest: at columbia. my senior thesis was a biography of richard hover stater. he has been eric phoner's dissertation adviser. eric fopperies now the dewitt clinton professor at columbia. and i've known eric for decades now. he, too is a person who reads all my work, gives me feedback. so princeton is a school -- i'm an the board of trustees princeton. i have very fond feelings toward princeton it, too very influential in my life. >> host: ten years after you were there michelle obama attended princeton. didn't seem her experience was the same as yours. >> guest: my sense is, from what i read in the paper, she did not have as positive an experience as me. i'm sorry about that.

we have appreciated the perspective and time given by naag and its executive director, jim mcpherson, and several attorneys general, to inform our thinking on challenges and opportunities that we face now because our office is transitioning from an appointed attorney general to an elected attorney general, which begins in 2014. in addition, we recognize and value the fine work by many other offices on amicus briefs and letters, to the federal government and others, that we've been glad to join and that helped the district have an ability to have its voice heard on national matters, an issue of particular importance to us in light of the lamentable and unjust situation that we have no voting representation in congress. we have also been fortunate on deaf of our 600,000 citizens to have the opportunity to work on and join in on some of the important multistate settlements that our collective resources have made possible. most of you have been in washington before and i want to welcome you back. for those here for the first time, i encourage you to take a dish of the wonderful things in

at princeton, james mcpherson, the great historian of the civil war, was my thesis adviser. one of my teachers at princeton was a visiting professor, eric phoner, the great american historian. >> host: columbia now. >> guest: at columbia. my senior thesis was a biography of richard hover stater. he has been eric phoner's dissertation adviser. eric fopperies now the dewitt clinton professor at columbia. and i've known eric for decades now. he, too is a person who reads all my work, gives me feedback. so princeton is a school -- i'm an the board of trustees princeton. i have very fond feelings toward princeton it, too very influential in my life. >> host: ten years after you were there michelle obama attended princeton. didn't seem her experience was the same as yours. >> guest: my sense is, from what i read in the paper, she did not have as positive an experience as me. i'm sorry about that. my experience was very positive. and, again, i feel lucky in that way. i've been a lucky person with my associations. i feel absolutely extraordinarily blessed. at every stage of my life,