this sounds very punk on my part but rupert murdoch scares me. because you literally he's a media mogul who controls most of the world and he also has a ninja assassin as a wife but he literally is like a. character you know like you. really can't really say then maybe it was one of piers morgan's or purse bronson's one and it was a very good but still he was there so i have nothing there you know what about this i mean what about this idea that only that the owner of that you know the most successful cable news network a very successful newspaper you know is engaging in a policy debate certainly that doesn't suggest that he's telling the writers what to say or telling the anchors what to say on air about do you think you don't think it's crossing the line at all. i know because i feel like of the other things he's been accused of breaking into people's phones socks and shoes in general to him tweeting is the least of his offenses up he as a ninja assassin as a wife just like he just telling you is the least thing he's tweeting us a big that's no

over murdoch has been going after the white house criticizing president obama for backing down from the stop online piracy act or sopa here's a tweet from a couple days ago he said so obama has thrown in his lot with silicon valley paymasters who threaten all software creators with piracy plain thievery so it was a time to change the architecture of the net for the sake of entertainment. certainly it is very interesting when you when you see what he's going after this is his industry used to project also murdoch treated piracy leader is google who streams movies free sells advertising around them no wonder pouring millions into lobbying so you see here this is this is the media mogul rupert murdoch who owns the fair and balanced fox news channel and also the wall street journal today matthew swimming more than kneedeep in a policy debate your thoughts. anyway we can destroy in our own way but in this sounds very punk on my part but rupert murdoch scares me. because you literally he's a media mogul who controls most of the world and he also has a ninja assassin as a wife but he liter

shirley murdoch performed with a national symphony orchestra. but not before speaking with wjz. monique griego has more. ♪ [ music ] >> god gave me a dream ♪ >> reporter: shirley murdoch has been belting out beautiful music for more than 25 years. >> music has the power to make you feel something. so it sets the atmosphere. ♪ [ music ] >> reporter: after years of singing r&b hits, murdoch switched her focus to gospel. and for the first time this weekend, her powerful voice was joined by the national symphony orchestra in washington, d.c. >> he found the strips to raise his head ♪ >> reporter: as an artist, to be able to come to the nation's capital and to be able to sing with the symphony orchestra is really magnificent. >> reporter: murdoch was part of the production in honor of martin luther king, jr. >> it's to commemorate the civil rights movement. it's through song and through music. and i'm just very, very blessed and very fortunate to be part of it. >> reporter: she also didn't mind getting the chance to visit charm city. >> and i met a lot of people here in baltimore. an

shirley murdoch performed in washington, d.c. but not before speaking with wjz.ue griego has more. >> shirley murdoch has been belting out music for 25 years. >> music has the power to set your heart on fire. it sets the atmosphere. >> reporter: after being in r&b, she switches to gospel. and for the first time, her powerful voice was joined by the national symphony in washington d.c. ♪ [ music ] >> as an artist, to be able to come to the nation's capital, and to be able to sing with the symphony orchestra is really magnificent. >> reporter: murdoch was part of the production, in honor of martin luther king, jr. >> it's to commemorate the civil rights movement. so it's through song and through music. and i'm just very, very blessed and fortunate to be part of it. >> reporter: she also didn't mind getting a chance to visit charm city. >> i've met a lot of people here in baltimore. and you got the ravens. [ laughter ] >> reporter: murdoch is also breaking ground on another project. her first live cd and dvd. on the journey, she collaborates with several other singe

this weekend, shirley murdoch performed in washington, d.c. but not before speaking with wjz. and monique griego has more. ♪ [ music ] >> shirley murdoch has been belting out beautiful music for more than 25 years. >> music has the power to make you feel something. so sets the atmosphere. >> after singing r&b hits, this weekend, her powerful voice was joined by the national symphony orchestra in washington, d.c. >> as an artist, if you were to come to the nation's capital and to be able to sing with the symphony's orchestra is magnificent. >> murdoch came to sing in honor of dr. martin luther king, jr. >> reporter: it's to commemorate the civil rights movement. so it's through song and through music. and i'm very, very blessed and fortunate to be part of it. >> reporter: she also didn't mind getting the chance to visit charm city. >> and i met a lot of beautiful people here in baltimore. then you got the ravens. [ laughter ] >> reporter: mur dock is also breaking ground on her cd. on the journey, she collaborates with several other singers, for a unique live show. >> you get a

filtering rupert murdoch has decided to join the fight by taking to twitter and attacking both obama and google but is this one battle the old man is destined to lose so by antipas supporters like harry reid and the top lawyer for n.b.c. universal have been peddling a few myths about the legislation which we need to break down and wikipedia has announced that they are going to blackout their site on january eighteenth so the opposition is proving they will not rest so let's analyze some of these developments joining me to discuss it is declan mccullagh chief political correspondent for seen at second thanks for joining us tonight and first i guess what your comments on the white house coming out this week and releasing this statement that as it is they will not support these pieces of legislation resupplies it all. a little surprised because they announced their opposition it's qualified opposition it is they're not saying we hate it there's no way we'll ever support it they're saying right now it's really not the best approach and generally what happens is that there's a formal proc

of poll politics, you creat murdoch variable. the beautiful thing is that we're even talking about it. we need to understand that as we address the money issue, that it is not a panacea, that it is the beginning of a process that will be a raft of reform in this country. and if they did it in 1883 and put murdoch in charge, they may want to keep the money in. straight ahead, stay at home dads. >>> b.j. took over her cincinnati business. she moved it away from diamonds an gold to offer more unique ring, pendants and necks hases. she scaled down, moved to a smaller space and became more web centric. a more personal operation led to sparkling profits. for more, watch your business sunday mornings at 7:30 on msnbc. [ male announcer ] drinking a smoothie with no vegetable nutrition? ♪ [ gong ] strawberry banana! [ male announcer ] for a smoothie with real fruit plus veggie nutrition new v8 v-fusion smoothie. could've had a v8. we asked total strangers to watch it for us. thank you so much, i appreciate it, i'll be right back. they did

quote, this is from murdoch, can't blame newt g. too much.e was carpet bombed with negatives by romney. brilliant, visionary, but just too much baggage. and erratic. well, rupert murdoch to newt gingrich. you've got too much baggage. >>> to the big screen. meryl streep is once again wowing audiences. this time for her portrayal of former uk prime minister margaret thatcher in "the iron lady." true to form, streep did her research and some of the information about the staunch conservative leader might surprise you. let's hear it from the actor herself. >> there's always stuff to be learned, especially many years out from an administration. but i was very surprised to learn that she didn't try to dismantle the national health. she thought that that was right to have the national health. that she was pro-choice. >> she would be drummed out of the american conservative party. there would be no question. >> wow, well, michele bachmann referenced the iron lady relentlessly during her presidential campaign and held her in high regard. with the views

she mentions soros with no mention of rupert murdoch. why?, for one thing, rupert murdoch's publishing firm killed my second book, harpercollins. "new york post", "wall street journal" have never published me. i have never worked for fox news. don't tell me rupert murdoch is the savior of conservatives in america. i hear he puts on, he does some great media and, i enjoy consuming it but, he is also not, you know he only recently become a nationalized american, right? he like soros, born in another country. that is usually the, people, actually involved in day-to-day politics who are liberals have foreign accents. and i would recommend that they stay here a few generations. you don't see, rupert murdoch putting out media that people manifestly want to read, which is why fox news ratings are through the roof. and although i don't work for them, i like appearing on their network and their ratings are twice what cnn or msnbc. "red eye" comes on 3:00 a.m. on fox news and higher ratings prime time on than cnn. this is more than hiring david brock t

that's in addition to the phone hacking scandal that shut down murdoch's news of the world tabloid. the weekend in chicago. a dip in the temperature. [ woman ] i was ready for my trip. but my smile wasn't. [ female announcer ] new crest 3d white intensive professional effects whitestrips. it goes below the enamel surface to whiten as well as a five-hundred dollar professional treatment. wow, that's you? [ female announcer ] new intensive professional effects whitestrips.the winds kept a pretty cool today. we also had a little snow this morning. we're now up to 13.7 in.. compared to last year's 26.3 in.. it's been a relatively dry winter boat look at the sunshine, those winds are really howling around the area today. they'll be subsiding a little bit during the overnight hours tonight and they may pick up briefly during the afternoon tomorrow. right now not much happening in the sun belt in the southern half of the country is relatively quiet. a little system sitting just hit our immediate north and west. it is going to snow again but probably no more than an inch, more likely a half

and tonight we see that there's a tweet from rupert murdoch of all people saying that rick santorum is the man. that could be the first signal that conservatives, moving conservatives are now going to try to get around santorum as perhaps a "stop romney" movement. >> david, conservative media mogul rupert murdoch has been tweeting for three days now, starting on new year's eve, and he's already found it to be contagious. there was one i read this morning where he said, good to se regardless of policies, all debates showed principles, consistency and humility like no other. not exactly an endorsement. and then murdoch tweets later tonight -- can't resist this tweet, but all iowans think about rick santorum. only candidate with genuine big vision for country. now, when yoy that's as close to endorsement as you get. >> right. >> i think it's significant. and if you're rick santorum and you're canvassing the state and you're going to the pizza barn and fox news is playing at the bar, that kind of thing matters. what's different about iowa, as you well know, these are real party stalwarts.

deng in the pink during the hearing is the wife of rupert murdoch. murdoch did start tweeting.er said it was her. they put the verified check next to it. it's not her. we don't know who is actually tweeting as wendy deng, but it's not wendy deng. but rupert murdoch, he's for real. >> tweeting these days. >> whoever is tweeting as ms. deng, we're not sure they have a right hook like she does. >>> 5:56. still to come on today in the bay. we'll take a look at the latest sierra snow survey. >>> the parents of a young boy shot to death last week preparing to say farewell. we'll have details on the funeral preparations when we come back. it's the perfect time to find great deals on the 4g lte devices you love. like the droid bionic by motorola for $199.99. or the pantech breakout for $49.99. our lowest price ever. get the technology you love, on the network you deserve. now get twice the data for the same low price. hurry in, this offer ends january 15th. verizon. ♪ [ female announcer ] if whole grain isn't the first ingredient in your breakfast cereal, what is? now, in every box of

. >>> twitter verifies a phony murdoch account. >> hoodwinks on twitter.unt all his wife windy does not. the impostor is a british man. millions of copies of angry wor -- angry birds were down loaded. wikipedia as had $5 million more donations than last year. there is a movie about a fictional new york city mobster that enters the the witness protection program, available on netflix. >>> we are hoping delta the winter gear out, because you will need it. -- we are hoping that. >> it is hurting some business owners. brianne carter is live at the skating rink in arlington. >> i would like to get a sweeping package. -- a sweeping packagleeping bag. the cold weather is turning out to be bad for business for a place that usually heats up when it cools down. >> this is the coldest day in a long time. >> temperatures are more than a shock to the system. for some, the frigid forecast is bad for business. >> when it gets real cold or windy, people like it when it's warm. >> it was too cold last night. >> we have maybe 15 toll right now. >> a big drop in the usual cu

deroy murdoch, he expanded my brain and some champions of freedom i hadn't considered. movie makers. you say even though hollywood is stuffed with liberals, they unintentionally celebrate freedom. >> some of them do. i think some share the ideas that you and audience and others unintentionally provide us the language that we can use in freedom. >> john: let's start with evita, the true story of the former argentinian dictator's wife. there's a lesson in this clip ♪ the money kept rolling down and the poor and the weak ♪ >> evita created a charity that took money from taxpayers and then gave out lots of free stuff, bread, pots and pans, soccer balls. one scene shows her throwing money at people. ♪ money, money, money >> eventually the money ran out and people got angry. >> all right, but this is, that was madonna playing evita. by the way. this is a music cal, a celebration of liberty? >> well, it is. i think a lot of people like we do, didn't see this movie, madonna is in it and a tribute to evaeta. the opposite. the movie makes excellent point, power corrupts, and not

what rupert murdoch is tweeting about and how many followers he has. >>> a body found in the snow ater national park is the man that killed a park ranger yesterday. a plane searching for benjamin barnes discovered his body lying fosdown on the mountp this morning. the 24-year-old is believed to have fled to the park after a shooting at a new year's eve house house party. authorities suspect he later shot ranger margaret anderson. >> kind person. hard worker. always had a smile. >> benjamin barnes had training and armed when he entered the park. authorities evacuated 100 visitors while they were searching for him. the mother of benjamin barnes' child said he was angry and sue cital and may have suffered from posttraumatic stress disorder. >>> a debate that allows loaded weapons in a national park. gunneras lowed in all but 20 of the park services 392 locations. before 2010 fire arms at mount rainier national park were required to be put away so they weren't accessible. >>> rupert murdoch joined twitter. he began two days ago and has 56,000 followers. he tweeted about the steve job's b

we have seen a lot of efforts, but things like rupert murdoch's daily have not excited us on a journalistic level. but i think we are laying groundwork for some institutions that they possibly do that in the next three to five years. >> i'm wondering what you think it would take for it to go to that next level and provide quality journalism. >> i just want to offer a slight difference of opinion. i think that we are seeing a couple of things happen right now. they are positive things that are happening. while it may be true that the first wave of online-only journalism tended to be national and international criticism and opinion, which got the name of blogs, what we are actually seeing of the local level is something even more exciting than that. as newspapers have become challenged, and we have seen, sadly, the destruction of capabilities of newspaper and local television stations and other media in the local arena, we are seeing a new layer journalism being created at the local level. some startups such as the "bases and close " in san francisco, "texas tribune" out in texas -- there hav

it's a tabloid owned by news interactional, of course, the organization run by rupert murdoch and his news corp organization. the other is a police man said to be arrested when he was at work in a central london police station earlier today and charged with corruption, misusing his public office, and with conspiracy. the other individuals have been charged as well. so these are very serious crimes they're alleged to have committed. in some ways it rented an escalation of the campaign to try to get to the bottom of the hacking scandal and to the extent that the police and the journalists involved worked together in what essentially were illegal practices, christi. >> how difficult has it been to try to obtain a lot of this information for investigators? >> well, it's historically been, you know, incredibly difficult. this has been a very closed corner of the media, a very close corner of the police work as well, the extent to which the police and journalists cooperate. it's something that obviously takes place very much under the surface behind closed doors. but this incident along wit

and this is indeed the real rupert murdoch. the guy that founded twitter. following four people, including the creator of farmville. we think it's a typo. >> you never know. >> that's cool in itself. it's 6:26. still to come a bad drive-up banking. we'll show you the aftermath next. >>> plus, possible closure for the woman who almost lost her family when a small plane crashed into her east palo alto home. >> and we've been talking about how dry it's been around here. a front providing a lot of moisture through the north bay. i'll take it out for you city coming up after the break. >>> and while that heads into the area, i have a stall in a typically bad commute spot.bu d commute today. dinner? candles? i wanted it to be special. oh, what's this? it's progresso's new loaded potato with bacon. mmm, it's good. honey, i love you and... oh my gosh, oh my gosh.. look at these big pieces of potato. yeah but honey, i love you and... is that what i think it is...it is... it's bacon. honey look. [ male announcer ] progresso rich and hearty... 4 new flavors, you can l

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not even rupert murdoch would come up with that. we just did that because it is what made us feel good. now we are thinking, with the burning man project -- it is interesting. my partners and i are thinking beyond our lifetimes. it is a bit of a legacy project. which is really interesting, an interesting exercise. that makes you feel differently about the present. so what would make something that durable? what would keep it alive that long? we have been alive and have grown for a quarter-century. it may not be hard to imagine an entire century at all. now we are found in an institution that will house and generate culture, and function as a community. wondering how we can be sure that it is not perverted, subject to internal divisions, will not perish. and that is a really good exercise, too. think about doing something that will last 100 years. >> thinking about the next couple of minutes, we should have questions from audience members. who ever has a question, start lining up. i'm going to ask one more and then we can start going

i don't know if this is an editorial position by murdoch but it's a political position. he can read the writing on the walls. you can spin this all he wants as class warfare, the fact of the matter is it's easy for democrats to turn him in a caricature of the 1%. >> do you think either one of these candidates will break out in florida? >> the polling says gingrich might have peaked a little bit, but it will be tight, i'm curious to see what happens with santorum voters who could make the calculation that rick sab tore rum won't win in florida, i think that is what we have to look out for. >> sam, great to have you with us. >>> this was the scene on capitol hill earlier today. >> a standing ovation in the chamber, a rare moment of unity as members of congress saluted their colleague, arizona congress woman gabrielle giffords. today giffords resigned from congress a little more than a year after she was shot in the head. tributes poured in from both sides. she hand delivered her resignation to john boehner. debbie schultz read the letter on the house floor. >> all that was

>> can i remind rupert murdoch supports sopa so we all do too?int, hint. >> okay i get the hint. >> how is this going to hurt a ma and pa like news corp? >> is wikipedia going down, did that hurt you? >> not at all. i don't usually go there. apparently high school students do though. that's paw at thehetic. you have off spring in high school, right? >> i have one. i know they do use wikipedia, but it is not necessarily reliable. >> are you sure about that? >> that's what i hear. >> i think it is getting better every year. at first i didn't rely on it, and now everything i know i get from wikipedia. >> i know where you are born. >> my wikipedia page says i am adopting a child from china which would be lovely, but i am not. and it says my father was a prosecutor, but he was a trader. fyi. >> i also put you are a celebrity nudist, and we all know you are not a celebrity. >> just a camp nudist. >> where was i born, greg? >> someplace in long island. >> nope, sorry, you are out. >> wikipedia stiption. -- stink. >> bill, people keep going to your entry

. ♪ >>> 80-year-old media mogul rupert murdoch is beginning the new year with a new hobby tweeting.once scuffed at the internet got his account saturday and has already gathered 55,000 followers. apparently his wife has already made him delete one of his messages as inappropriate. he wrote maybe brits have too many holidays for a broke country. it disappeared a short time later. he later tweeted i'm getting killed for fooling around and friends frightened what i may really say he's australian. >>> we've seen a few steve jobs dolls, new action figure may be the most realistic yet. 12 inches tall, it comes with a black turtleneck, levis and new balance shoes, all trademarks sold by a company to honor the late apple co-funner, selling price $99. -- co-founder, selling price $99. >>> 6:25. still ahead, who is going on and who going home. last minute campaigning and what the polls are saying as voters prepare for the iowa caucuses today. >>> new information that police hope will lead to a suspect in the shooting death of a 5-year-old child at an oakland taco truck. >> reporter: i'm terry

and an update on the media hacking scandal that took down rupert murdoch's news of the world newspaperword that news international, which is the parent company of the now defunkt newspaper, has agreed to dole out hundreds of thousands of dollars in settlements to 18 reported victims, including some famous brits. a number of people over alleged phone hacking. jim talked to tus about the victims. >> among those said to have settles include actor jude law who reportedly receiving nearly $200,000. these are a fraction of the alleged phone hacking done on behalf of murdoch's news of the world newspaper, shut down last summer. erin. >> all right, italian rescue workers are now resuming their search for 21 people who are still missing after the costa concordia disaster. we have new video to show you which as you'll see shows thomoments just after the ship ran aground. a crew member speaking in italian is telling people to go back into their cabins. >> sounds and looks chaotic. dan rivers has been covering >> sounds and looks chaotic. dan rivers has been covering this. when row see this video

chairman rupert murdoch has been even more cutting in his criticism. he says "piracy leader is google who streams movies free, sells advertisements around them. no wonder pouring millions into lobbying." the solidarity the tech industry is showing for this legislation is a change, and industry watchers say it has helped them galvanize public opinion. >> tech companies did a good job of trying to boil it down to one sentence, saying it's going to break the internet. this is going to ruin the internet as we know it. they're really, really strong statements. that's a great way to make it a lightning rod, the same way that occupy became a way that people will spread comments over the news sites, writing on their blogs, on twitter, on facebook. and sopa is becoming similar in that it's a really lightning rod word, and people are taking it and running with it. >> reporter: the debate has been slowed in washington. a house hearing scheduled for wednesday has been postponed, but both sides vow to fight on for what they see as essential aspects of their busines

rupert murdoch's empire will pay at its now defunct news of the world tabloid. actor jude law and his ex-wife and his assistant are among those receiving settlements. >>> the florida department of law enforcement is raising eyebrows as they are shells out 300 bucks to get employees testy to test a breathalyzer. we did that with exstrong coffee. kind of sad. >>> coming up a tragedy in free style skiing. yet another college basketball upset. a shoot-out goal in hockey you have to see to believe. lebron and the heat break away from the outmatched l.a. lakers. your early morning sports headlines are straight ahead. >>> in the weekend forecast, it is highlighted by snow no new england and a wet forecast for the west. that's coming you're watching "early today." >>> good morning. if you're just waking up, this is "early today." >>> in sports on paper last night's matchup between the lakers and the heat promised to be a great one. in reality, it couldn't have been more one-sided. here is nbc's frr with a early look at all of your sports headlines. >>> good morning. the