. >> reporter: ecologist bob meese has spent the last decade studying the try-colored blackbird, whichions. how much louder would have this been just a few years ago? >> it was almost deafening. >> reporter: the decline, he says, is unprecedented. according to surveys coordinated by meese and his team at the university of california davis, the state was home to 400,000 tri-colored black birds in 2008. today there are only 145,000. that's a 64% loss in just six years. >> there are parts of the state where the birds just appear to be disappearing altogether. >> reporter: meese is now catching the birds so he can tag them and track their movements. he believes the birds' natural habitats are increasingly turned into farmland and vineyards, which rely on pesticides which kill off the insects the birds feast on. >> if they do not have enough insects in their diet, they cannot form eggs. >> reporter: so meese is trying to convince growers to give up pesticides. here at this organic rice field, the blackbirds are able to collect insect larva to feed their young. the back birds can act as natu

john meese, summa cum laude. >> the seattle student who stopped a gunman after a deadly shooting spree recognized at his college graduation with two standing owe vaugss. this morning an emotional tribute and honor in his name. and this morning we're live as a military dad surprises his kids with an early return from afghanistan on this father's day, today, sunday, june 15th, 2014. >>> from nbc news, this is "today" with lester holt and erica hill live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >>> welcome to "today" on a sunday morning. it's, of course, happy father's day. happy father's day to our dad here in the studio. lester holt >> thank you very much, erica hill and thanks and happy father's day to my father who is also lester, by the way. >> makes it easy. >> dylan dreyer and ron mott here and nice to have you here and that's because -- >> jenna is down in baltimore where she is getting in an early morning workout. she's there with the ravens today as part of our shine a light series running the stairs so the rest of us don't have to. she's going to be hanging out. >> not true. >> wit

. >> john meese suma kumlade. >> reporter: john meese pepper sprayed and pounced on a man as he was reloadingis gun at pacific university. one person was killed and two others injured. the gunman had at least 50 additional rounds. he told police he claimed to kill as many people as possible and then himself. >>> starbucks is offering a new perk. the seattle company is partnering with arizona university online. most of the company's 135,000 employees are eligible and they don't have to remain with starbucks after getting their degree. >>> a pilot working for an illinois sky diving company got his first jump this weekend all by accident. on just his fourth flight yet. the pilot realized a pilot hit the tail of the plane. for several minutes, he tried to control the plane trying to make it back to the airport. when he figured out he wasn't going to make it. he decided to bail. fortunately he was wearing a parachute. >> i jumped out of the aircraft about 2,000 feet. so i only had 1,500 feet left to the ground. the wind carried me and i landed in this soybean field over here. >>> and his actions q

[laughter] i'm john malcolm, i'm the director of the edwin meese center for legal and judicial studies we are here today to discuss a new book entitled "obama's enforcer: eric holder's justice department." t the book is a thorough, provocative and unsparing account of the department of justice under the tenure of attorney general eric holder. it describes a justice department that is puff sized -- sufficient fused with hyperpartisanship and racialism. it describes a department that is preoccupied with imposing its version of racial justice and which has no qualms about bending, ignoring or breaking laws to suit its purposes, no qualms about attempting to disrelate conservatives who served in the prior administration or who still serve at the department of justice, and no qualms about covering up its own dirty laundry such as operation fast and furious. we are fortunate to have with us today the co-authors of this book, hans von spakovsky and john fund who previously collaborated on "who's counting: how fraudsters and bureaucrats put your votes at risk," which was published in 2012. to

general ed meese for contributing the critical chapter on reagan. lee edwards for his keen observations on the early version of this manuscript. most of all, i'm grateful for heritage's fine work in conserving and renewing principles of the american founding. my friends, i grew up in bridgeport, connecticut, the home of phineas taylor barnum, the greatest circus show han in history. -- showman in history. let me paint a picture for you of how i was as a boy and the circus came to town. a hill-long train -- a mile-long train pulled into the train station. trucks moved the loads onto the fairgrounds, and local kids began to gather to watch the roust abouts unpack. finally they set out the three huge rings and raised the big tent which seemed, to us, impossibly big. it held the promise of a thrilling spectacle of flying trapeze acts, tight rope walkers, a human cannonball, fire breathers and lion tamers. and then, just then when it seem ed as if things couldn't get any more exciting, the roust abouts set up the side show acts. the parade of human curio

here as my role in the public utilities commission i couldn't be moren enthusiastic about meesing with you for the first time, meeting jointly with you to discuss all the overlapping objectives and goals and a partnership moving forward and routinely getting together with each other publically and privately to talk about some of the things that we can kind of do jointly and individually as one. in particular i'm interested in looking towards putting together some joint initiatives, but i'm also looking to making sure that people have an at some point to talk about and think about all of the great things that the public utilities commission has done for the environment and some of the great work. i think today's meeting is probably just an exercise in illustrating a lot of the things that the puc has been able to do over the course of the past several years that the commission on the department of environment obviously staff should think pretty highly of. oftentimes people talk about what's not occurring and what's not happening without talking about the glass being half full. no pun in

meese apparently had modeling agencies reality tv shows as well. toronto mayor rob for expenses returns to city hall after two monthly of absence to deal with substance abuse. they will speak to reporters the in the public trough afternoon tea is meat may see as much sun rob for said the loss eight pants sizes after rehab. it knowledge international attention after he confessed smoking crack. a strong earthquake rattled arizona on the story coming up to look at exactly where the earthquake happened untidy who faulted that's coming up >> : a sunny day with kron 4 news weekend taking a look at the forecast nothing but sunshine of the golden gate bridge clear here is a general indication as to see clear skies of the golden gate bridge sinclair's guys at about some clouds along we are talking about warmup today and continuing to tomorrow temperatures near the triple digits and when commercial cooling tuesday it tuesday to thursday for the july looking pretty pleasant in use for the war scenarios. satellite images poorly forming a rain. not dominating t

john meese, summa cum laude. >> the seattle student who stopped a gunman after a deadly shooting spreeognized at his college graduation with two standing owe vaugss. this morning an emotional tribute and honor in his name. and this morning we're live as a military dad surprises his kids with an early return from afghanistan on

turned out -- that was a student who i guess had tackled the shooter. >> a group of students helped meese pin him to the ground. among the gunshot victims was a 20-year-old woman. >> she had a lot of blood on her chest, probably indicating chest wound. >> reporter: he tried to comfort her while they waited for medics. >> she was basically panicking, call my mom call my aunt call my best friend, i need you to make these calls for me i think i'm going to die. >> reporter: emergency crews took the victims, all in their 20s, to the harbor view community center where one man was pro announced dead. >> he was critically injured and died shortly after arrival. >> reporter: hundreds packed for a service and prayers at this christian community. many are expressing gratitude to those who risk their own safety. >> many citizens stepped up and i believe in this case they prevented a more horrible tragedy than it was today. >> reporter: aaron ebar is expected to make a court appearance this afternoon. the 26-year-old-year-old victim is still in critical condition, the two others are recovering. >> a m

meese god, rescue my dad. >>> someone heard the cry for help and called sunday none and there will be more on this incredible story on "good morning america" at 7:00 this morning. >>> a bay area high school principal leap into a campus pool earned him 15 minutes of internet fame starting with this photo of the high school principal plunging feet first into the water in walnut creek deciding to get in on a senior tradition during graduation to jump into the pool fully clothed and the student caught the moment with a smartphone and uploaded the photo which inspired a creative photo hop -- contest including "look mom, no hands." and this one entitled "air jordan." a splash in the pool and a particular, now, on the web. >> you have the look like i can't tell whether he is "i army happy the seniors are graduating," or "i am happy the seniors are graduating and i want them out of there." >> probably a bit of both. >> what a cool principal. >> love that. >> it will be a cool day. it was breezy and cool yesterday but unseasonably so today. chilly there. if you loved yesterday you will love to

reporter: vice president of the brotherhood of locomotive engineers and trainmen steven bruno tells meese from an operational standpoint, septa city bus, troll es wouldn't be able to handle a rail stoppage overload. the last septa strike stretched from march 15th until july. governor corbett's office will not say yet whether it will intervene to force presidential mediation. of course, that intervention by corbett or president obama would buy both sides 240 days or more time for those talks. the governor's office says riders like the commuters we're seeing here bound for those trains to head home to the suburbs tonight deserve the full engagement of both parties to work towards a resolution. the governor does expect these parties to iron out their differences. we'll continue to watch these negotiations. live in center city tonight, cydney long, nbc 10 news. >>> meantime, septa is celebrating the start of late-night service with commuters today. we were there for a lunchtime rally at the walnut locust station. subway trains will run overnight on fridays and saturdays on the bronx street an

next, we have a senior legal fellow with the edwin meese foundation and manager of the election law reform interdiction. before joining heritage in 2008, he served two years in the federal action commission and as council to the assistant attorney general for civil rights at the department of justice. he's a graduate of m.i.t. and vanderbilt. last but not least, heather dale is the senior fellow for public diplomacy. she previously served as editor for the washington pines where she oversaw the papers on local politics, as well as foreign affairs. heather joined heritage in 2002 as deputy director. her work has been featured in outlets including "the wall street journal," the weekly standard. she's written numerous articles on the benghazi issue, and will continue doing so for the new heritage blog the signal, which is the launch is tomorrow. we look forward to heather's remarks. with that, over to you, peter. >> good morning, everybody. i won't talk for long, which should believe a relief to many of you in the audience here. but i am going to add a little bit to the list of questions that

ed meese is the de facto national security advisor in 1981. i say that because richard allen, the actual national security adviser, it did not have direct access to the president. alexander haig, who is the secretary of state, expected to be the vicar of foreign policy, he quickly learns he is often shut out and is unable to cultivate a real relationship with reagan. because of this ambivalence and the power of more hard line elements, such as weinberger and william clark, who have long-standing connections with reagan, because of this, i think george schultz needs to be regarded as the third indispensable actor in this period. over the course of the first administration, from this period onward throughout the second administration, george schultz was the critical agent of u.s. foreign policy in the administration. he garnered the trust of the president and deflected hardliners. he concentrated on the soviet union and labored to steer relations with it from confrontation to cooperation, even before gorbachev's ascent. when he comes in, george

instead, police say john meese, a student building monitor, pepper sprayed and tackled ybarra as he reloaded his gun. the terrifying moments captured in the 911 call to police. >> there are two people standing there. and this guy walked up behind one of them, lifted his rifle and shot. >> he's in here. >> okay, where? >> oh, god. please, hurry. >> one student was killed in that attack. another is in critical condition. ybarra is being held without bail and is now on suicide watch. >>> overseas, in iraq, officials say gunmen have stormed the university in the anbar province, best of baghdad. they are holding students hostage inside a dormitory. iraq security forces have launched an assault on those gunmen. it happened at anbar university, which is near the provincial capital of ramadi, which have been taken over by extremists and anti-government militants for months now, since back in december. >>> and radio legend casey kasem is in critical condition this morning. this, as the family feud over his health care heats up. a washington state judge is putting kasem's daughter, not her stepmother,

the rule of law, and whether it's griffin bell or ben sieve letty under democratic prosecutors or ed meesenburg under republican presidents, attorneys general have found a way to straddle that delicate balance. in the case of attorney general holder, every time there's been a fork in the road and there are political priorities that must be met and that there's the rule of law, he has gone in the direction of the political priorities. should he leave thedwzejt)(q of attorney general before president obama's term is up, he would be subjected to all kinds of subpoenas that he would have to answer as a private citizen, all kinds of court appearances that he would have to answer to as a private citizen, all kinds of requests for documents he could no longer stonewall or count on stonewalling, and he, basically, his new job title would be permanent witness. [laughter] so i don't think he wants that. so he will be attorney general, i can almost assuredly predict, until noon of january 20, 2017. >> [inaudible] >> our book is on the justice department. >> couldn't really answer -- >> >> didn't he c

police say that ibarra is preparing for more bloodshed when he was taken down by 22-year-old john meese. >> a student monitor who works inside of the facility observed the suspect reloading the shotgun. he pepper sprayed that person and then got them to the ground. >> i looked down from my office and i saw one of my students sitting on top of somebody in a big pile of shell casings. >> reporter: police say that ibarra is not a student, and they don't have a motive. a small christian college, and today, the 4,300 students at seattle pacific are grieving and praying together. a deadly shooting, a senseless crime and an act of heroism that may have saved many lives. one student remains in critical condition, and the other is in satisfactory condition, and the 26-year-old gunman will face charges later on in the day, and the police say that the shooting was caught on surveillance tape. the tape may show the suspect being taken down by that hero student. craig? >> all right. miguel almaguer for us in seattle. more news now. >>> according to a new statement in the hospital in landstuhl where

find moose bones that are wildly radioactive meaning the wolf ate these wildly radioactive moose, meeseor mice -- anyway, but the wolf population doesn't seem to be affected. but the really, the disturbing thing that's really affected the bacteria that churns the garbage of the dead biological waste into mulch, that's been cratered. so it's not mulching like it should, the area around chernobyl, the forest, isn't decaying like it's supposed to. yes. yes. yes. >> i think we're having more probables -- [inaudible] from people who didn't care about where -- [inaudible] >> yes. >> we got lots of cancer going on out there. >> yes. >> whole pockets of it. >> yeah, yeah. there -- yes, that's what she's talking about, toxic. yeah. there's a famous "mad men" episode where the family goes on a picnic, and they just throw all their trash in the park and just pick up and leave with all the trash sitting there, and i think that explains a lot of what we're still living with today with that toxic chemical. and for washington where they created plutonium. that is one of the most polluted places. and b

>> they do not need to become anything more than a meese -- niche. >> they can make it just by becoming a niche? >> discuss it further. to company news headlines. executives at general motors say an internal review of a car recall will be good news for the ceo. timesell the new york they believe the investigation will clear her of any wrongdoing. the life insurance expanding to a faster growing u.s. market in japan. agreed to pay 5.7 billion dollars to buy profit light from alabama. representing a 34% premium over closing price. the biggest foreign acquisition ever by japanese insurers. may use the state own development angst to help siemens bid. competing with general electric to acquire energy assets according to people familiar with the matter. they would buy a stake in the siemens bid if it succeeds. that is this morning's company news. >> quite the story. this one will does not go away. penalizeer, you will pnb. bob anyone to buy? up, we have the past two hours. terminal two at heathrow getting a major makeover. will it help the airport get approval for expansion plans? we go live

take a look of the state's most wanted felon during meese's getting love online from his time upshotted on facebook about 13,000 lakes and more than 3000, less than 24 hours some ladies' room, and say that they would to see this sexy should be illegal one common this is just the charity to spring him. he said the yield is looks will not let people think of him as a criminal. the signal rates where will we go back to talk about the forecast for the three day racing event going on here and the rest of the bay area coming up in just a moment. also ball cover their bets always done what does the sunshine and this morning. 62 non a center of the jurors in oklahoma. to approach the 90 degree mark these for the delta that a bit more spot december 91 and not 9293 possible degrees and broward and discovery bay. the london east bay shoreline look for temperatures generally along the east '70's. tsongas the cyclical the the save mart. of the morning user burned up by 10:00 living as a sunny afternoon temperatures will be in the upper seventies a low 80s east bay so be actually gorgeous to take

in other segments of the economy powerful pores forces of competition and technology can transform meese services and they have done so. a central challenge for us at the sec is to adopt regulatory approaches that insure intermediaries harness the forces of technology and competition to better serve the needs of investors in each of the markets we oversee. not just in equities but also in fixed income and derivatives. now to understand this challenge, i want to talk first just a bit about why competition and technology are so important to how we address market structure issues generally and the role of intermediation in particular. i will then turn actually to contrasting markets, to illustrate the complexity of our task as regulators as we and when we grapple with these forces. namely how the equity and fixed income markets have been affected or have not been affected by competition and technology. you know, just like the u.s., macro economy all of the securities markets operate within a structure of rules, technology, market practices and other constraints that establish the boundaries

attorney general ed meese, who also works at heritage, he's explained before that reagan thought thats a mistake. you can forgive the mistake once if we try a proposal to grant an amnesty and see if we can then, you know, clear out the illegal population and start over again, but we have tried that now. so if we tried that again, i think it'd be with shame on us at this point. you mentioned about three million, we think. the fraud rates, i've seen some study that is show up to 25% were fraudulent inductee into that amnesty, and now we're looking at a pop haitian of over ten -- population of over ten million. no one knows exactly, but we have a pretty good idea from census data and dhs estimates. a lot of people think those estimates are short, but we know there's at least more than ten million. >> host: the u.s. chamber disagrees. welcoming immigrants is good for our economy and our society. immigrants do not typically compete with americans for jobs and, in fact, create more jobs through entrepreneurship, economic activity and tax increases. immigrants serve as a complement to the u.

hans -- a senior federal with them meese heritageter at the foundation. his work at heritage includes analysis of such issues as civil rights and civil justice, the rule of law, and government reform. as -- andd two years prior to that as counsel to the assistant attorney general for civil rights at the department of justice. he is a graduate of m.i.t.. he writes for the wall street journal and politico. the seniort least, fellow for public diplomacy at the heritage foundation. hella previously served as an editor for the washington times where she oversaw the paper policy on local politics. heritage in 2002 as deputy director of the davis astitute, eventually becoming director for the center for foreign policy centers. she is a graduate of the university of copenhagen and is fellow. she has written numerous articles on the benghazi issue and will continue doing so for the new heritage blog. i look forward to hella's remarks. i will hand it over to peter. morning, everybody. i will not talk for long, which it a relief to many of you in the audience. i am

this is a project that's near and dear to my heart and when ed meese caused and asked if i would participate in something that dealt with the problem that i saw as a massive problem, overcriminalization, something that as a former prosecutor, judge, chief justice has driven me crazy, because i had seen, when people want to beat their chest and show how tough they are, well, let's slap a criminal penalty on something. and so as you know, we talked about there may be 5,000 or so crimes. they're not in 18 u.s. code where they ought to be as a criminal code. and i had wondered why in the world have we not been able to clean this mess up before. and what i'd heard is that it seems like every time a project gets fired up to try to clean up the criminal code, that it ends up being a big santa claus christmas bag and people start trying to throw more and more in it and then overall, you lose too many votes and people go, i can't agree to that. wait a minute. i love the idea. i was on board but now you've thrown that in the bag. i can't agree to that. and then it loses the impetus and nothing gets do

. >>> meese your new miss usa. >> and miss usa 2014 is nevada! >> that is lee i -- leah sanche, 24. first runner up, miss north dakota. that's where maria molina was. she was out there. >> she was? >> yeah. >> doesn't she look a little like maria? >> a little bit. but mar why could have won. >> we got her here. we're winners because every monday morning, donald trump joins us wherever he is and this morning he wakes up at trump national in miami after a busy night in baton rouge. good morning to you, mr. trump. >> good morning. >> so tell us about 24-year-old miss sanchez, a fourth degree black belt taekwondoer. >> well, i'll tell you, i will not mess around because she's tough. she's a great champion in a lot of ways. she's a great fighter. but the place really liked her. they went crazy. i heard they announced they entwhistle absolutely crazy when we announced her. i think she'll be very popular and very good. they had a lot of great people there last night. and baton rouge, louisiana, was amazing. >> who were your judges? >> i had a lot of judges. we had one in particular, carl m