for the nats, that meant players like matt morse. good news, they did offer morse a contract. he had a breakout campaign. 31 homeruns. 95 rbis. the team also offered contracts to zimmerman, lannan, clippard and flores. some hockey, caps are 3-3 under dale hunter. they have been trying to grasp his new system which is less focus on offense and more gritty defense. six games, not a very good sample size. i understand that. but the guys say they're making progress. >> with him implementing the system here, i think we're picking it up well. the last couple games. giving ourselves a chance to win every night. >> the more you play, the more confident you get. and i think when you play the defense right, you're going to get chances to store. >> speaking of the coach, kristen berset sat down with him and goes one-on-one. a myriad of topics. alex ovechkin coaching the team he wants to play for. you can see that tomorrow. it is great. can't wait for that. big news in hockey. sidney crosby out indefinitely after experiencing concussion symptoms again. he missed 68 games after receiving a

el vÍdeo muestra como el alguacil encerraron a ciudadano americano a un cuarto donde permaneciÓ sin morsemÁquina artificial, fue finalmente desnectado. >> sufrÍa de una enfermedad mental, ahora la familia de la vÍctima pide que se haga justicia por su muerte. >> no nos sorprende. esto continÚa muy seguido. los golpes a los detenidos. la corte federal grisonas, recarga la decisiÓn que tomó el juez en la demanda interpuesta por quien acusÓ un al sheriff. el segundo al mando, dijo hoy que a pesar de que la demanda no ha concluido, prÓximamente los demandantes tendrÁ que entregar en corte evidencia del perfil racial que segÚn Él, no existen. >> abogados del sheriff dijeron que aplicar leyes federales no es perfil racial. era una pequeÑa victoria, ya que el juez no tomÓ una decisiÓn a la pregunta que muchos cree saber si alguaciles hacen arrestos basados en el aspecto fÍsico del conductor. >> cabe mencionar que tambiÉn recientemente un reporte revelÓ que a 400 de los casos de abusos hecho al hacia menores de edad no fueron debidamente investigados por la oficina del sheriff del condado. >> un

if you want morse on our stories go to our website at abc7news.com.look under the news links on the left side for assignment 7. that is all for this edition of assignment 7. hope you enjoyed it. i'm kristen sze. thank you so much for joining us. we'll see you back here next time. >>> home for the holidays, next at 5:00, bay area troops home from afghanistan get a warm welcome. >> and east bay foundry that is being forced by the government to fire 200 employees. -dad, why e you getting that? -that's my cereal. is there a prize in there? oh, there's prize, all right. is it a robot? no. is it a jet plane? nope. is it a dinosaur? [ laughs ] [ male announcer ] inside every box of heart healthy cheerios are the great tasting little o's made from carefully selected oats that can help lower cholesterol. stickers? uh-uh. a perhero? ♪ kinda. [ male announcer ] and we think that's the best prize of all. ♪

saw a picture right now in this screen of sort of a simulated space walk was this is space walk on morse or was it like a route around the spaceship you know themselves. which granted for space work well well well when you without help especially a work when something is seriously what is this someone nation or for work in mars or face on the sort of his arsenal but we use. or for the instruments we are using which we need to use and. they were designed for the moon landing and you saw him on landing and were using them was quite cool. for new instruments. period special special forty six but i'm ok now one of the one of the main subjects that was discussed when you were going to five hundred years was women i going to be any women and boys will actually is first i know women were excluded from taking part in the crew in order to i quote to avoid the possibility of sexual tension or competition well looking back was this a justified decision were they right or you would have preferred if you had a couple of girls and i don't know said i so far as far as i know there were some there were

looks as though -- there's plenty of other evidence that the more educated you are in science, the morsethe less likely you are to believe in anything supernatural. >> but there are signs. even in the u.k., robert winston, a committed -- >> some really do believe i and the virgin birth and things like that usually you'll find they believe in some sort of thing, rather a good thing that people should believe in religion. or they believe in some sort of vague great spirits, life at the base of the universe. it is seldom that you can them down, they really truly believe in miracles. >> you have written several books about science. your most recent one, "the magic of reality," which is how we know what is true when you try to explode certain myths. you look at evolution and so on. do you see it as a mission for yourself, that you want to educate people better? >> of course i want to educate people about science, but it is a book for children, nothing to do with religion. and take-bathetic towards religion automatically. but it is a book of science for children, for young people. it covers a

and now the answer for today's trivia question: samuel morse is best known as the inventor of the telegraph but he was also an accomplished painter ... >>look at the rain passing to the south of chicago ... and we have that alberta clipper that will produce some flurries overnight may be in the morning to ... the next weather system will be headed here from the southwest coast we will see some rain here on monday ... the light went overnight will pick up tomorrow afternoon there is mild oceanic air sweeping across the midwest we will see that on sunday the high may be 40 degrees the wind is much lighter today than it was yesterday the forecast by tomorrow morning will have a wind remain light until later in the afternoon ... that will taper off overnight into sunday morning and later sunday we will have some more went taking us into monday and that storm from the texas panhandle will head the our direction look at the warm weather in florida right now ... we're looking at quite a mild forecast here is the 10 day forecast: sunday and monday will be warm moderate cool down midweek 37 degrees

carrying valuable food and supplies for the international space station at the time we were hearing from morse and from the guys on the space station who that those food supplies had been for saying no this is fine it's ok i remember saying in my report look these guys go through extensive cosmonaut training that they know what they're doing they'll be fine. volkov who is actually the mission commander who is up there when he returned from his time in space he was telling me that yeah they were genuinely a little bit worried they were generally scared at times they were going to run out of food they didn't know if they were going to be able to be brought back down to earth before that ran out in the beginning of twenty twelve pressures that these people put themselves through evident thankfully that these failures that we've seen today seen this year these failures that we've seen this year didn't result in . any major problems on months spaceflight that's always the big concern but. it has shown the perseverance of these people who do risk their lives going into space on a well as a job they

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it leads you toward more self-indulgence when you're pulling those little morse els of cheese off thelate so you tend to buy more high calorie food. >> this is a holiday time that is all built on over consumption. you talk about how we want to reset our lives for 2012. we eat too much, drink too much, spend too much then worry about the debt, weight, and the fact we got into an argument with our uncle. >> eat as much as you want on the actual holiday but let's watch out for the other 364 days. >> drink a lot of water. before you go to a party, between your beers, so you can maybe drink more if you have to. all right. peter, so nice to see you. thanks for coming in and happy holidays. >> thanks. >>> the holidays may be a great time to reconnect with family but also primetime for family feuds. not at my house. up next your go-to guide for avoiding those uncomfortable situations and keep the peace this holiday season. know organi. and so is having a trusted assistant. and you...rent from national. because only national lets you choose any car in the aisle...and go. you can even take a fu

morse died at a hospital. police believe three suspects carried out the killings. investigators do not believe the attack was a random act. >> also a national ban on the use of cell phones, weighing in on that topic. take a drive on every brush any local roadway and it will not be long until you see someone talking are texting on the phone. >> you still do it? >> i do. i know i should not. >> not only has been proven dangerous but it is against the law in many places. d.c. and maryland banned taxing and use of hand-held phones while driving. only texting is prohibited in virginia. ntsb voted today to recommend a nationwide ban on use of cell phones while driving unless there is an emergency. >> it is as cognitive distraction. not been engaged in the task at hand. >> this end -- follows an investigation where texting while driving was seen as the cause. >> uighur you put your hands on the will or you put your hands on the phone. >> the recommendation goes further, banning use of personal electronic devices. gadget slyke gps, a tablet computers, anything that could t

. >> i was told that the inmates in this -- on this side were actually flashing their lights sos, morse code. looking for the outside to come in and help them. >> you can hear the yelling and screaming and, you know, people yelling for help. >> inmates, i heard, were tied up on these railings and thrown over and hung. some were just tossed off from mainly the third tier, the tier above us. that mark is actually the outline of a body of an inmate used the remainder of the torch on. i think his name was perry. he had a lot of enemies in population. that outline there on the floor is permanently there. it will not come up. >> some of the groups that were holding the officers hostage were attacked by other groups of inmates. the hostages were taken from them, dressed in inmate clothes, slipped out of the prison and subsequently, those prisoners that did that got pardons. >> after a 36-hour stand-off, exhausted, hungry and freezing, inmates surrendered to the national guard. >> when it finally was over, we came in with the national guard, the state police. and we rushed in and first thing th

that crude and appalling remark, and warren made eisenhower pay for it by including it in the meme morse which is why we have a record for it. it marked the end of relations between the president and chief justice and foreshadowed the relationship between them in the next few years. it was publicly apparent a few months later. in may, warren announced from the bench the decision as olely oliver brown versus the board of education in kansas. the decision on paper read, we conclude in the field of public education, the doctrine of separate but equal has no place. as he read it, however, warren interposed a word, we unanimously include. justice reid, the last hold out in brown wiped away a tear. marshall, a lawyer for the plaintiffs stood in amazement. warren sensed the power of the moment writing when the word "unanimously" was spoken, a wave of emotion swept the room. no movement, yet a manifestation that defies description. eisenhower was not among those moved. he elected to receive brown not as a triumph or or as a fulfillment of a constitutional right. he regarded it as an order. the s

they are michael morse who did a great job at first base. harper coming up. they don't really feel the need to add a huge contract that fielder would bring to them now. i don't see him being in the mix. albert pujols have been the talk here over the last couple days. >> he has several offers in excess of $200 million. the latest report i read was the cardinals offering $220 million. what is your gut feel on this thing? >> my gut is he's going to stay in st. louis. i think all things considered, the money was going to be similar. they all of a sudden have all this money to spend out of nowhere. gechb the histo given the history of st. louis, he's going to want to stay there. the money is similar. the marlins still have money to spend after they signed all these other guys. >> i can't believe the marlins. that stadium is going to be half empty. they are not going to know what to do with all these guys. they are continuing the rebuild. doesn't look like they are going to add big names or contracts. in the end, it may be a good thing. harper has been talked about

standing here and also waiting out in the cold is terry cole, vice president of marketing, and steve morse who is here with the salvation army. you have been part of this for years. >> we have. >> you started the program? >> yes. 25 years, probably. the engagement with the partners that have come alongside is huge and the need is huge. so just be involved, be engaged and find a coat to give. >> you are there every year when these are handed out, which by the way these coats will be handed out on january 9th. tell me about some of the stories and how you determine who is in need. >> we have been taking applications for the christmas assistant since august, frankly, and the numbers are up about 20 or 30% in most of the communities in the region. a lot of those people actually have to really make hard decisions about what are we going to eat or where are we going to live, and coats are not thought about until it starts to get nippy outside. news flash. it's going to get colder. the coats are going to be well used, and they are going to be really lifesavers for people who otherwise don't have

interviewer: now anthony, sherlock holmes has his watson, morse has his lewis, and foyle has milner,deputy. his experiences in the war have made him a very complex man. how do you think they have molded him? anthony: um, he's come back from the war, the very beginning of the war, the invasions at in trondheim, uh, and he's come back with a disability, he's lost part of his leg, so he has a physical and constant reminder of the horror of war.

al interviewer: now anthony, sherlock holmes has his watson, morse has his lewis, and foyle has milner, but there is much more to milner than just being foyle's deputy. his experiences in the war have made him a very complex man, how do you think they have molded him? anthony: he has a physical and constant reminder of the horror of war a-a-and what this war is doing to people and is continuing to do to people. um, and i think he's, you know, because he's got this first hand experience and that he's had to overcome a fair amount of inner turmoil, i think that it has strengthened his resolve and strengthened his, i think his commitment, to uh, to dealing with, all be it perhaps on one hand petty crimes and on the other hand could be murders. i think he has resolved himself to dealing with it as best he can and you know, his ambition was to go to war as a corporal to defend his country in that way, but i think he sees now that his position is to defend his country in the way that he can. which is helping foyle and being part of a team. because there is a fair amount of evil stuff happeni

poet john morse is the guy who thought these signs up, some are in spanish.ku signs are now installed at busy corners all around new york. if i sound funny, it's because i'm trying to count my syllables. you know, a story about haiku done in the same poetic form. how am i doing? i will not do this again. i have hurt my brain. i think i prefer iambic pentameter, more like normal speech. haiku art in the big old city, best new thing t is really hard.

poet john morse is the guy who thought these signs up, some are in spanish. busy corners all around new york. if i sound funny, it's because i'm trying to count my syllables. you know, a story about haiku done in the same poetic form.

poet john morse is the guy who thought these signs up, some are in spanish. now installed at busy corners all around new york. if i sound funny, it's because i'm trying to c

. >> and i'm jane morse, and i've got to tell you, i've never felt more warm and cozy. >> well, i haveh, o.k., well, what i mean is that i get to tell you how warm and cozy you can feel by saving money on your home heating with the edenpure. >> so it wasn't me? >> it was probably... partially you. >> and i'll be introducing you to actual edenpure customers who have taken control of their home heating costs, like margie mefford. can you remember the last time you saw someone smiling while holding their heating bill? and stay tuned for my exclusive visit with bob vila. you'll find out why bob has made the edenpure his top recommendation for home heating for 2011 and 2012. >> so, richard, you're telling me we're going to hear from a real home improvement expert? >> hey, i own a home-- i make hundreds of home improvement decisions all the time. >> like that time you changed a light bulb? >> exactly. now, here's just one of the great things that bob had to say about the gen4. >> when i chose the edenpure as my number-one home heating product for last year, i was absolutely convinced that th

sergeant jim morse knows what it's like to be on the receiving end. >> that care package could have thene thing that that marine has been craving for months, you know, hasn't been able to get his hands on. it could just be that one thing that tips the balance of whether he's going to have a bad day or a good day. >> thank you so much for your time, effort and love. >> reporter: like thousands of others, he wrote caroline a letter. >> my marines are faced with heavy combat, dealing with casualties, extreme heat, fatigue,. >> most are still under 21. my boys fight like lions. be proud of america's sons. they surprise me daily with the strength and bravery they possess. your support brings us closer to home. sergeant jim morris. >> reporter: that got to you. >> well, because i could picture them. >> reporter: you think about your son over there now too? >> try not to. >> reporter: this week box number 750,000 is scheduled to roll off caroline's assembly line. she'll keep it running, she says, not just until her son comes home but until they all do. ♪ >> osgood: ahead, when neon was new. ea

the iraq government says it's confident that security morses can take up where the u.s. left off. now, the lat american troops pulled out of iraq yesterday. the convoy included about 110 vehicles and 500 sold yers. they withdrew under the conner of darkness and strict see secrecy. >> translator: because the u.s. troopt have gramually pulled out from their bases. the -- troops have gradually pulled out mr -- pulled out from their bases. >> although the war may be over, the u.s. will still maintain a large presence each therer. a deal to keep several thousand troops to stay and train iraqi soldiers fell through over the issue of legal immunity for the americans. >>> it was a touching homecoming for bay area soldiers who have been the last year in the war zone. [ cheers and applause ] >> last night we were at mineta san jose airport, one of the largest groups of military personnel group. members of the 185th military police battalion have been in afghanistan since just after last christmas. >> i'm really glad to be back home now. i've been away for a year. i want to spend time with m

. >> reporter: local artist john morse created the signs. >> my goal was to present something small,this crazy, large mix of what is going on the streets of new york. >> reporter: but in this city that is constantly on the move, few people appear to stop and take notice. did you notice the sign as you were walking by? >> no, i did not. >> reporter: you didn't? >> no. >> reporter: you walk in this neighborhood a lot? did you notice this sign? this new sign? >> no, i did not see that. >> reporter: now that you've seen it, what do you think? >> i think that's great. >> us new yorkers are not paying attention to what we should be paying attention to. >> my aim is to reach the distracted pedestrian, the long pushing baby cart, the businessman who is working on his smart phone. >> we actually try everything we can to reduce traffic fatalities. we have 4,000 people that are seriously injured or killed on the streets of new york every year. we are doing everything we can to make our streets as safe as they can be so we continue to be the world class city that we are in the 21st century. >> t

i understand, jan morse is your guru.e, james morse had a reassignment surgery in morocco in 1972 and adopted the name jan. perfect guru for someone like yourself speaking in san francisco. we don't need any more general pronouncements from geologist. if they can develop their signs to the point where they can tell us that an earthquake is coming in five days terrific, tell me it's an issue no. otherwise, shut up. [laughter] c-span: i don't know i've ever heard it referred to as a sexual reassignment. where did you get that? >> guest: someone wrote it. though jan as i told the last time we met, was very much my guru. i was living and working in uganda is a geologist in 1967, 66, 67, and read this book called coronation everest which was published by faber about, written by james morris who was the times correspondent that went with the expedition that got to the summit in 1953 and it was an amazingly exciting book. james morris had never climbed anything higher than a welsh 3000 foothill and now all of a sudden he has fix

harold morse by the way, talk about them in this book in the context of robert mcnamara.e is a brilliant documentarian. >> thank you very much. [applause] [applause] >> thank you. >> a couple of good questions? can we bring up the microphone? >> no questions? i think we have been at this for 90 minutes. go ahead. >> go ahead. >> hi mr. grow caw, thank you so much for being here and for sharing your words. i was very inspired. i was particularly interested in your description of the collaborative environment in which you were raised professionally, the mentors and as someone here who is not experiencing the same kind of cultivation in the workplace, more of a competition both among entry-level workers and among the more senior workers and entry-level workers. i'm wondering if you could speak to your opinion on that? how did we move away from a cooperative workplace to a competitive work face and what effect has that had on the workplace and the productivity of all of us? >> you want to repeat that question? [laughter] >> can you make it shorter? beasher. >> the cooperative

yvonne had a touch of class to it, little bit more cosmopolitan perhaps, that more stylish, at the morse fourier. i described her as the gin in the tonic in the cream and the coffee. she was cheerful and humorous and one said to me that really the only unforgivable sin was to be boring. which has haunted me all my life. fear of becoming a bore or being bored, stark terror, tedium. [inaudible] >> yes, it's with me always. i mean, i think it's probably the most devastating word one can use against somebody or risk having used against yourself. don't be boring. >> this book is full of names, boldface names as i say. i'm just going to throw some out and have you respond. mark amos. who is he and what is his relationship to you? >> as i'm sure a lot of your audience know, a brilliant novelist both of humor and of gravity. he has written novels about the holocaust and about the gulag archipelago but he is also written his best known one called money, which is the study of anglo-american degeneracy at the cusp of the 1980s. in which i appear once or twice, fairly heavily disguised. and he is my

i'm trying to think like morse. does that mean we're going to the pub?ow you can find all the inspector lewis mysteries at shoppbs. you can also download episodes at itunes. looks like they're all in it together. start your collection at shoppbs.org. now we've built you a new book. our favorite finished homes like you've never seen them before. a new book from "this old house." [ knocking ] i'm jim anderson, and i'm a stained-glass artist. when i first started doing this stuff, it was the '70s, and for a long time, stained glass was still in churches, people hadn't thought about it in residential buildings. but when i was in it in the '70s, we were more experimenting with color and texture and glass and light and all these theories, and it was just a whole new world. it was just -- it was lit-up artwork. these look good. they look perfect. not too much, not too little. i had bought a building on the south end, and i started making stained-glass windows, started putting them in my house, and i happened to be right in boston at this sort of monumental rush

so these people who went over, these young men that almost all at that time like richard morse hunt,ike louis sullivan, h. h. richardson, who changed the look of our cities, change the look of america. they all went there to study architecture, came back different from what they had been. ugoda boston, trinity church on one side, h. h. richardson, look across the square, boston public library via charles the kids in. very similar in many ways to paris. and he said so. they were taking, you use the word earlier, inspiration, inspiration from paris. and again and again brian, they all wrote that they wanted to bring something home to make things better here. they wanted, they were doing something they felt was a service to their country, not just to their own ambitions. c-span: you have not mention george haley and i'm going to put up here on our screen the painting that you write about, zero websters reply to haynes. who was george healey and how long did he spend? >> guest: george george healey is to me a great american story. george healey was an irish boy who grew up in the streets

the budget but th now without a balanced budget amendment but thes fact is it yea cannot.s ha for morse than 40 years, congress ability t has been unable to summon the ability of the balanced budget. sought t statures that sought to provide a path towards an unbalanced budgete field.rsonal let me speak here about a w as personal a involvement that i had body when i was a member of the body working working with senator. the bird was adopted in either 1979 or 1980. was a statute of those few works collis of the congress won't spend any more money. well, you know what happeneduntil was for several years after that. t in view of the 1990's, congress just delete it for a your time as a part of the appropriationsood process. such suits.so byutting it is repealed.constituon so by putting something in the it' going t constitution requiring a balanced budget is going to be a discipline on the congress that statutes are not discipline in other words for the statutesre field and have proven failure thatan based upon examples law gave plus other examples that can be given. the the exception was whe