within our existing resource base in addition to the additional resources we asked for at the national targeting center. >> just one clarification though. i thought these additional personnel that you referred to were aimed at a passenger screening operation. >> the national targeting center will correct the record if i misspeak, but i believe these are going to be national targeting center for cargo. we have the ntcp that is in reston, virginia, and that is the program that works with the immigration advisory program. but i believe that these were destined and we intend to allocate them to the ntcc. >> that is not the information we have but if you can get this straight for the record. and while you are at it, please provide us with whatever accounting you can of where in the budget these items that had earlier been briefed and had anticipated where in the items these might be embedded and to the extent that thear not in the budget how you are making tup difference, so to speak. that would be very helpful to us as we try to support this program fully. you understand, we want this to happen. twopet mak

so the national center for health statistics is encouraged to work as they have been with dates and registration areas to complete the transmission so that good accurate maternal health is once again gathered on a national basis. the security and exchange commission to work with data collection to supplement them in order to collect data on women and corporate leadership. finally the president asks a federal agency to work on collecting data in public life. the council of women and girls has already been working and the president specifically asked us to continue to project forward. i want to thank becky and her team which brought the report to a reality and kathy and her team, and the data on the web site. they continue to refund the project. [applause] >> a thank you for posting a us. and executive director. we celebrate the report, a special pleasure to do it with a combination of this project. has the president said, in order to do this, this is going to get the message across the federal government that every part of the federal government -- everything we do affects the lives of women and

the joint terrorism task force's infusion centers across the country have improved information sharing, the national counterterrorism center as analysts and other officers from all agencies of the intelligence community working side by side sharing information with their home organizations. there have been some failures as there's already been indicated. there is no question that wikileaks, a novelist publication of sensitive documents, is very sentiment and real concern. those are legitimate. but the need to share information we think is still remains highly important, and we should not backslide on that. congress has to stop the government strike the right balance between the need to protect unauthorized disclosures and the need to share information to defend ourselves against the threats we face. among our major disappointment has been the administration has not in paneled the privacy and civil liberties oversight board. this is a major recommendation very strongly supported by all of the commissioners. i am informed and i'm not sure that i'm quite up-to-date on this, that the administration is n

the joint terrorism task force's infusion centers across the country have improved information sharing, the national counterterrorism center as analysts and other officers from all agencies of the intelligence community working side by side sharing information with their home organizations. there have been some failures as there's already been indicated. there is no question that wikileaks, a novelist publication of sensitive documents, is very sentiment and real concern. those are legitimate. but the need to share information we think is still remains highly important, and we should not backslide on that. congress has to stop the government strike the right balance between the need to protect unauthorized disclosures and the need to share information to defend ourselves against the threats we face. among our major disappointment has been the administration has not in paneled the privacy and civil liberties oversight board. this is a major recommendation very strongly supported by all of the commissioners. i am informed and i'm not sure that i'm quite up-to-date on this, that the administration is n

the national center for lesbian rights. san francisco chamber of commerce. the san francisco department of children, youth, and their families. san francisco department on the status of women. san francisco zero divided foundation. we would like to thank the city department heads that are here. the department of status of women. the human rights commission, and our own director, the office of civic engagement and immigrant affairs. you have an opportunity later in the meeting for public comment. please indicate if you would like to speak or write down your questions and return the cards to staff members. i would like to introduce an outstanding leader who has worked hard to bring the diverse segments of the san francisco community together to reach a common ground. since coming into office in january of 2009, he has brought thoughtful leadership to our city. we're pleased to welcome the president of the san francisco board of supervisors. thank you. [applause] >> good evening. i am pleased to be with all of you today. i want to think the immigrant rights com

to be national targeting center for cargo. we have the ntcp, national targeting center for passengers that is in reston, virginia, and that's the program that works with the immigration advisory program. but i believe these were designated for the ntcc. >> that's not the information we have but if you can get this straight str the -- straight for the record, and provide us with whatever accounting you can these items that we'd earlier been breefed on and had anticipated where in the budget these might be embedded and to the extent that they're not in the budget, how you're making up the difference, so to speak that would be helpful to us as we try to support this program fully. you understand, that's what -- we want this to happen. we want to make sure that we understand the full budget implications of the -- of this capacity building. >> yes, sir. >> thank you, sir. >> mr. dent. >> thank you, mr. chairman. good morning. a couple of things following up on mr. price's questions. it's my understanding that 100% of outbound commer

expect none of us do we can't really predict it i will say this though king abdullah started the national center for dialogue several years ago he has built i think an institution out there is intent on finding dialogue between sunni and shia between male and female between young and old and i think we need to respect that effort hasn't gone far enough certainly not but it doesn't mean that they're not interested in dialogue merely because they have a security and police force. assembled for what is going to announce there's a large rally ok if i'm going to have. bad habits die hard because just as we've pointed out through this program here is that i mean the use of force is the first reliance that regimes like this like to use and as we speak right now it's raging in libya people don't give up so easily it appears and there's no reason in the world why the the royal family and so you arabia is this going to say oh yeah we should sit down and have a dialogue that's hasn't happened well why would it happen now and then they're just going to tighten their grip because that's what they know best a

under such a consensus a national emergency centers as well as the national myth original centers make some assessment on the for us all such a cloud in order to know in advance where is such a cloud is heading to florida for example is a national and oceanic atmospheric administration in the u.s. is this not a model to predict the threat of a polluted cloud along evolving better educated situation all over the world any i teach it over the globe and of course since a mythological condition change we steinman space over the globe such forecast model has to be around and checked several times a day. recently. fewer well. three long range transports ok indicated that we are facing the north over japan and therefore are not. there's not a threat for tokyo or osaka. and. i'm sorry the lanes are facing south to leave it is to say that contaminated don't want to reach a sucker or tokyo for these coming days and fortunately no wash wash out of this radioactive cloud already active rain is anticipated seen as a cloud is expected. as a prosecutor patience snow and rain will stop in the coming h

these computer text search these files every time they get a file on their desk to search it's a national center for missing exploited children database to see if there's any matches just imagine the amount of time that that's there now take a search that computer there for the amount of money that corporation's going to lose just fixing a little laptop but here's the problem one hundred percent of the both the rogue republicans and democrats and house representatives in oregon voted for this bill and i i know why because the democrats or whoever it might have thought it was crazy actually you think a conservative it was crazy is a constitutionalist are afraid that they'll be hit with negative ads during the next campaign cycle saying that they support child pornography what is good about supporting child pornography it's about supporting the constitutional rights we have united states citizens and having just been sworn in as united faces and last year i'm defending a constitution that i believe in as an attorney and workforce in the laws as a former prosecutor that's what we do we're here to f

she has been actively involved and previously served on the national women's law center, and nationalter for research on women. thank you. we're so excited to hear about the report. finally, it is also my honor toint deuce tina chen, executive director of the white house counsel on women and girls and chief of staff to the first lady. over the past couple years, i have gotten to know tina a little bit at various meetings and she's often the one we all yell out for more things that we want. i love the fact she also takes it with smile and says yes, that's great. so it's just been a delight to know you over the past few years. she's one of the most visible faces at the white house and she works very closely with all federal agencies tone sure increased focus on government programs serving the needs of women and families. prior to a role at the white house, tina spent 25 years at a lawyer in chicago with the same firm as prita, which i get to say the name again, standard, art, pfleger and slcum and a variety of corporate clients. tina was also an active support every of women's rights an

i will correct the record if i misspeak, but i believe these are going to be national targeting center for cargo. we have the ntcp, national targeting certainty for passengers, that is in reston, virginia, and that is the program that works with the immigration advisory program. but i believe that these were destined and we intend to allocate them to the ntcc. >> that is not the information we have, but if you can get this straight for the record. while you're at it, please, provide us with whatever accounting you can of where in the budget these items that had earlier -- we earlier been preefed on and anticipated, where the items might be, where in the budget these might be embedded of the to the extent they are not in the budget, how you are making up the difference, so to speak. that would be very helpful to us as we try to support this program fully, you understand. we want this to happen. we want to make sure that we understand the full budget implications of the capacity building. >> yes, sir. >> thank you, sir. >> mr. dent. >> thank you, mr. chairman. good morning. a couple thin

where the care is again extraordinary back through -- if they stop in germany and then on to the national centers here in washington. now you do get that question, clearly. i used to ask it of myself in iraq. and again, i think you come back and afghanistan, certainly, to this whole issue about 9/11. i'm not one that has the twin towers on my wall in my office or something like this but this is a pretty ever present reminder for all of us again. this was not something i don't think that you could classify as elective surgery or something like that. there was a reason for going there and there is a reason to accomplish the mission that we're there to accomplish. >> we have two questions. >> pretty well, by the way. >> we have two questions to wrap up. they are both about libya. if there is a u.s. involvement in a no-fly zone, will they take necessary assets away from afghanistan and how will it end in libya? i place that before you. >> well, actually i'm very tempted to defer all of that to the commander of u.s. african command and ucom and some others. i will just note on the first one that has c

presidio trust, a treasure within san francisco, because the presidio trust is really a national park in the center of an urban setting. it dates to the very founding of the city. national park. toting me today to talk about this amazing exhibition at presidio habitat is cheryl hanes. can you tell me a little bit about the idea of the presidio habitat? >> succinctly, i have been long involved in the presidio. i was here when it was still a military base in the 1980's. i remember driving down walmart to the golden gate bridge and seeing the military guard at the gate and being utterly fascinated. >> so presidio habitat is an exhibition where you have invited, how many artists to think about the habitat? >> we put together a list of possible participants, local, national, or international, of people who are concerned with environmental concerns, made some sort of contribution to the landscape and conversation we're having here. we said that broke -- proposal requests and we received 25 back. from that 25, we went through and chose tend to realize in the landscape. >> including this building, which is

dryland is now the no. 1 center in that nation -- treasure island is now the no. 1 center in the nation. we have been doing a lot of work, we worked for the villages. we have done some work for the coast guard. these young men are familiar with project and our hope is we can get them on the projects and they can work with the contractors and become employed by the contractors and purchase some of the homes. the department of labor has recently given as $180,000 for a sustainable garden. you are all welcome to come and see it. it is 70% finished already. to have the grocery store there would be wonderful. we can have fresh produce delivered to the grocery store that is grown on treasure island. >> i'm representing the san francisco planning and urban research association. we have been on board with this project really since the beginning. one of the things we pushed hard on was to have the best units there to make all of this work. -- to have enough units there to make all this work. the original plan had much fewer units which would not have sustained the commercial development, the fer

president of the national organization for marriage. their advocacy center is tasked with connecting citizens with their officials on important issues on marriage, state and local level issues like here in iowa during the dispute and the resulting retention vote of the iowa supreme court three court justices. ladies and gentlemen, mr. brian brown. preserve innocence a mission of the american principles project, was organized to promote policies and actions to protect children. as the director of preserve innocence, it is the duty of our next panelist, emmet to not only advance the pro-family agenda but to promote a dedication to the fundamental principles on which our country was founded. please welcome emmet mcguarde. [applause] our fourth panelist hails from colorado where she served in the state house and then six years in the u.s. house of representatives. marilyn muss grave now takes her 100% pro-life record to the susan b antony lift where she is spokes person. and their nearly 300,000 members are cate to electing pro-life women as well as the issues c

holden who i've known for 25 years, interned at the star tribune, and he's now at the donald national center for courts and media. judge alex kozinski. manny medrano from los angeles who also does television work, and journal barbara rothstein and a judge in seattle. we know free press is to the shepherd case in 1996. the report in shepherd shows an out of control press demanding shepherd's arrest, and then calling him a liar, printing stories about his refusal to take a lie detector test and photos suggesting the murder weapon was a surgical instrument. they conducted it in a roman holiday atmosphere and should take strong measures to protect fair trial rights. the court said there was no need to decide what sanctions might be available against the press leading some judges to think sanctions might be appropriate. panel, what's your instinctive reaction when you read the description of the behavior in the shepherd case? are you outraged, or does that behavior seem familiar? go ahead. >> well, my reaction is the judge didn't control the courtroom. my first response is the judge is not to loo

most of the action is in the center or eastern part of the nation. here is the west coast.ittle pocket of rain from salt lake city at 46 to boise. then we look at medford also to have rainshowers. a little dryer in l.a. at 65. 75 today in phoenix with partly sunny skies. denver, a little bit of icy weather. micked precipitation type of day. then we'll look at tomorrow. why don't we go ahead and get a little bit brighter down in vegas at 64 for your tuesday? full ol sunshine. portland, you'll get rain. seattle, too. 52 and 48 respectively. a bit more rain up there on tuesday. if you are watching us on kntv nbc 11 in california's bay area, visit a small piece of the australian outbackç and see fi fuzy koalas at koala crossing at the pacific zoo. that's your pacific event of the day. >>> now here's an early look at this morning's headlines in entertainment. no big surprises in the box office as gun slinging lizard won the box office showdown. eye ramgo" easily took the top spot with $38 million while it fell m low range of expectations. it still had the best non-holiday openi

>> the national security council is a center of decision making about the conflict in afghanistan. it takes those decisions on a regular basis. >> what if the opposition were involved? >> the opposition has been invited to the council. on at least one occasion they have attended. >> it was in the early summer. >> is that in an invitation structure or is it just does what the prime minister thinks it appropriate? >> he made it clear on that occasion that he would continue to invite the actual leader of the opposition. there was a particular issue where he thought -- >> i am sure what there will be more opportunities for invitations. >> on the creation of the national security adviser, what effect does that have on the articulation of a national security strategy? >> i am happy to begin. there is a crucial component to the whole of the council. in the sense that he and his team draw together material from a wide range of sources and try to ensure that they are in good order and that the council is considering the things they need to consider. that is closely linked to the deputy prim

your early morning sports headlines are straight ahead. >> rain on the coast but sun in the center of the nation. your regional forecast is coming up. you're watching "early today." >>> good morning. if you're just waking up, this is "early today." in sports, an unsung player on an unsung team sets an impressive new nba record. here's nbc's fred roggin with an early look at all your sports headlines. >>> good thursday morning. it is a record that stood for over three decades and after 52 games of dominating the score sheet, kevin love has made basketball history. love had 16 points and 21 boards for his 52nd consecutive double-double. that broke moses malone's streak that he set all the way back in '78-'79. timberwolves beat the pacers. 101-75.cc1: finishes aroundcc1: the league. knicks and grizzlies tied, when carmelo anthony stepped up, with1: less than a second remaining, knicks won 110-108.cc1: to toronto, jazz and raptors, final seconds. devin harris couldn't get the lay-up to fall, but somehow, some way al jefferson kicked in the rebound at the buzzer. remarkable play to end the game. to w

at the end of december, 2009, the president issued the national declassification executive order. that is a center that has been established within the archives with the responsibility of reviewing. for the classification, more than 400 million pages of classified content by the end of 2013. a huge responsibility. a massive amount of material going back to world war one. the third is the information security oversight office, which has responsibility of reviewing classification divides, security, are arrangements for classification of information across the federal agencies. you may not know that there are more than 2400 different classification guides in operation at the moment. one of the responsibilities of that office is reviewing the number of classification guides and coming up with a reduced number. >> the president mandated the creation of the national classification center and the declassification of 400 million documents the house that progressing? we have heard about problems in the past with the e-mails of presidents and vice presidents from across party lines. there's also evidence th

. >> transportation secretary ray lahood says the tower at reagan national will now center two controllersduty at night and there will be a national review of air traffic control staffing because of the incident. >>> 5:26 your time. gay marriage won't resume in california at least for now. a federal appeals court has refused to request to allow gay marriage while it considers the constitutionality of proposition 8. the process could take at least another year. >>> well, apparently a change of plans for britney spears. >> this weekend's free concert will not be taking place in the castro district as originally planned. it's being moved to the bill graham civic auditorium. the reason, it's lawrence's fault! no. >> you can blame everyone about him. >> blame the bad weather and the free show is being taped for "good morning america" to coincide with the release of her new album. the concert is sunday, 12 noon, seating first come, first served. some people not happy because of course you can't fit as many people in the auditorium as on the street. >> a lot of folks in the castro, the businesses

this is a fluid situation in which the national weather service, the tsunami center are watching the bowies and as the waves approach the bowies, we'll get a good indication on the height, the size of these waves as they head towards the west coast. what we do know is in a case like this, we will see higher surf. we will also experience some minor title fluxuation. at this particular time, it is not a warning, which means it is imminent. this is a tsunami watch in effect for the entire coastline of the state of california and what that means, we are keeping a watchful eye on the situation. high tides, high surf will be heading this way. at this particular time, robert, it is not an emergency situation. i'm going to go ahead and jump back on the telephone right now with the west coast and alaska earthquake tsunami warning center and get updates. >>> let's reiterate some of the facts. this 8.8 earthquake struck at 2:46 local time. that was friday afternoon for japan. that was 9:46 our time. you are watching live images coming out of live japanese network. it is showing tsunami waves ru

and other nations at the center of a political unrest in libya. >> and measures apple is doing to keep youngsters from racking up huge charges. >> and money you could save on a wedding dress, a designer wedding gown. getting ready to plant? chances are your soil is like this: compacted, drained of nutrients. it'll hold your plants but it'll also hold 'em back. the solution: miracle-gro garden soil. the perfect mix of rich, organic ingdients, and miracle-gro plant food. just mix it in. and turn bad soil into great soil. helps plants grow twice as big. instead of holding 'em back, they'll leap ahead. micle-gro garden soil. and moisture control garden soil. >> closed captioning brought to you by mancini sleepworld. >>> good morning, we begin with another day for japanese stocks, stocks fell 1 percent. it sent the dow tumbling 2% erasing most of the gains for the year. toyota is resuming production and making replacement parts for vehicles already on the road. >> brace yourself for even higher food prices, wholesale prices rose last month by the most in 36 years and it will eventually make

we depend on the national center for health statistics, education data, the current population surveyh is how we know what the unemployment rate is every month. there are a lot of different sources, but the census is really key. host: our first call from you is from saginaw, michigan. valerie, democrats line, you're on with john logan of the u.s. 2010 project and brown university. are you there? caller: yes, i am. i finally got through. dealing with the censors, i do not understand why -- are we talking about suddenly becoming a brown country, or are we worried about that? what is the purpose of keeping up with the different ethnic backgrounds of people in the united states when you do not do it with german americans, russian americans, swedish americans? it is ridiculous. to me, we are all americans. i understand some of it has to do with where the money is delegated, how much they put into the black community, how much they put into the -- i mean, what is the purpose of it? break it down and be honest and tell why do we really need to know who is who in america. are we worried about

out a reference that wasn't talked about in this hearing, i asked michael leader, the national counter terrorism center director, i asked him specifically, what percentage of the people being looked at by your agency for domestic terror threats were muslims? his answer for the record, it is absolutely tiny, a my minute percentage of muslim population that is looked at. finally mr. chairman, i would like to ask my sheriff for the record because the whole cause of this hearing was to say there was a lack of cooperation, sheriff baca, you talked about what you do. tell us what the muslim community does? do they fail to initiate and cooperate with you? >> it's a very, very good question to ask. i think what we have here is a perspective that i believe has to be widened in terms of who are the muslims that cooperate, and i believe that musls are cooperating much more outside of organizations as well as inside organizations. we have both. you can't look at this perspective of who's cooperating based on organizations alone. the truth is that muslims are just as independent, just as feisty, just as concerned a

>> the forecast looks pretty messy for the center of the nation. were talking earlier about those weather balloons, and i think they'll be using some extras. we always do weis a day at every airport. they're going to get extras here because louisiana back to eastern oklahoma, problem areas as far as the storm goes. now, here at the west coast, denver, you're be on the northern part of that storm. therefore, just snow, winter weather advisories and warnings. a mu one hitting seattle down to medford, and that means rain. you're waking up with rain there, and temperatures m 40s for the most part. it will be a sunny one for vegas and phoenix. here's the forecast for you. 33, denver, with more clouds than sun, and, yes, some snow m upper reaches. then salt lake city, 41. 73, phoenix with sunshine, and we'll flip over and give you a sneak preview of your wednesday. go up to idaho and 55 for wednesday with a partly sunny sky. keeping the rain up many seattle, but moving it in medford, going for 63 on your wednesday, and by wednesday in l.a., 77. plenty of

the care is extraordinary back through blood did -- if they stop in germany and on to the national centers here, or where ever. you do get that question clearly and i used to ask it of myself in iraq. and again, i think you come back in afghanistan certainly to this issue of 9/11. i am not one who has the twin towers on wall in my office or something like this but this is a pretty ever-present reminder for all of us. this was not something you could classify as elective surgery or something like that. there was a reason for going there and reason to accomplish the mission we are there to accomplish. .. on the enormous capabilities that we have in our military. by the way, we are now getting to the one-year deployed, two years back, so the one to two kinds of dwell time as well with our services. and that's a function of not just having drawn down our forces in iraq although that's the biggest. we're down from 165-k at the peak to somewhere in the high 40s. also because of the increase of our force, the restructuring of them, the development of more of the so-called high-demand, lo low-dens

the first line hospital where the care is extraordinary if the stock in germany and on to the national centers here in washington. you get that question and i used to ask myself in iraq and i think again you come back to afghanistan of this issue of 9/11. i'm not one that has the twin towers on the wall in my office or something like this, but this is a pretty ever-present reminder for all of us again this isn't something i want to classify as elective surgery or something. there was a reason for going there and to accomplish the mission that we are there to accomplish. by the diy you to know you've got and that is admirably. >> two questions to wrap up and both about libya. if there's a u.s. involvement or component in the no-fly zone will the take the necessary assets away from afghanistan and this question asks how will it in the in libya? so i would place them before you? >> i'm tempted to defer all of that to the commander of u.s. african demand and some others. i would note on the first one there has been no taking of assets from afghanistan and i've heard absolutely nothing about that w

this is also the center of the nation's hope for survivors still being pulled from the muck. this woman trapped in a car for 20 hours. earlier, these preschool children and their teacher rescued from the water by soldiers, one by one. this is a nation of survivors. this may look like a lake, but it's actually a main thoroughfare through the city of sendai. people are walking and riding through here, as if lost. this man lost his wife. he is smiling because he just got word she might have ridden out the quake and the tsunami on an upper floor of the airport. he's off to find her. this man's house is half filled with muddy water, his business washed away. "it's unbelievable," he says. "i never experienced such an earthquake." few places in the world have experienced such an earthquake. first the earth here shook then was flooded, then last night, the sky was ablaze from this massive fire at the port. tens of thousands are being housed and fed in city-run shelters, but there's hardship even here. food rations are only going to children and seniors over 75, says this woman. still

joining me to discuss it is christopher swift fellow at the university of virginia law school center for national security law chris thanks so much for being here a pleasure good to see you now do you think that you know afghan civilians do you think that it really matters to them if they hear that seventy five percent of these attacks are are ones you know conducted by insurgents rather than i saw forces that they're dying their family members are dying their people are dying here you know a little of the difficulties with addressing any question about afghanistan is that we don't really have a good sense of how things are because so much of what public opinion is in afghanistan is really local so in some areas where they've had a really hard time with the talk about insurgency with the local leadership and the local people and most importantly you know let's not forget we're a day after international women's day where local women have had trouble with the taliban insurgents they may be more amenable to be u.s. argument in that instance but in other areas where there's continued economic depriva

>> i don't think we're the center of the universe, but the center of the nation right now. >> reporter: there are signs of hispanic influence everywhere, on telemundo, the soap opera debuted only three weeks ago and beats its english language network competitors in primetime. >> we'll see both more hispanics participating in more elections, hispanics entering the labor market and of course becoming consumers. >> reporter: new strength in numbers that show an increasingly diverse nation. kristen welker, nbc news, los angeles. >>> now to houston. mark kelly, the astronaut husband of congresswoman gabby giffords today talked about his wife and what he called her remarkable recovery. he spoke at the final news conference before his april 19th shuttle mission. >> she's starting to walk, talk more, more every day. and she's starting to process some of the tragedy that we all went through in january, she's going through that as we speak. despite that, she remains in a very good mood. >> kelly said he still hopes his wife will come to his shuttle launch. he says he sees giffords every morning

and the center of the nation will see sunny skies, plus temperatures will be cold in the north, and ratherth. >>> here's another look at this morning's top stories, the wisconsin state senate voted to strip just about all collective bargaining rights from public workers. republicans used a procedural move to pass the bill without any democrats present. >>> and more flooding is expected in the northeast today. an emergency has been declared in new jersey. high water from earlier this week flooded more than 100 homes. >>> a man with ties to a white supremist group has been arrested for trying to explode a bomb at a martin luther king day parade in washington state. 36-year-old kevin harpen is charged with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and possessing an unregistered explosive device. he allegedly put the bomb along a parade route in spokane on january 17th. it was defused before it went off, and it's still not known if he acted alone. >>> well, it was an emotional day in court wednesday for some of the victims of the shooting rampage in tucson. they faced the man accused of o

received the national center for patients safety 2010 cornerstone recognition program bronze award for successfully provided high-quality health care services to our veterans. the men and women who serve in the armed forces put their lives on the line every day to protect the freedoms that we enjoy here at home. we owe our troops, veterans and families the utmost gratitude and respect. and also for the great sacrifices on our behalf. i commend the providence v.a. center for their excellent services to our veterans. thank you for helping rhode island veterans. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from massachusetts rise? ms. tsongas: to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. ms. tsongas: i heard from one man who put his life savings into a home. after he was forced to modify his mortgage, his servicer stopped returning his phone calls, lost his documents and refused to provide him with any information to help him modify his loan. he wrote to me saying, quote, my bank told me that they ha

>> [inaudible] >> the national center for the state court committee whose function was to come up with guidelines on electronic access to records and the end of the day one of the things we heard over and over from one of the members of the kennedy is that she knew people could go down to the court house and get her divorce record but she didn't want someone sitting at home in their pajamas reading them and in the divorce record saying we heard over and over again something about pajamas this made people uncomfortable. but from my perspective what he said is absolutely true if it is something that is public which the vast majority of court records are and should be in the constitution there is no reason people shouldn't be able to get it easily and if a lawyer and a small town i grew up in washington which is a pretty small town, if i need to get a record and by any lawyer in a small town i shouldn't have to hire somebody in seattle to go to the courthouse and get those records for me or drive down there myself. i should be able to get them electronically and we take care of things lik

>> [inaudible] >> the national center for the state court committee whose function was to come up with guidelines on electronic access to records and the end of the day one of the things we heard over and over from one of the members of the kennedy is that she knew people could go down to the court house and get her divorce record but she didn't want someone sitting at home in their pajamas reading them and in the divorce record saying we heard over and over again something about pajamas this made people uncomfortable. but from my perspective what he said is absolutely true if it is something that is public which the vast majority of court records are and should be in the constitution there is no reason people shouldn't be able to get it easily and if a lawyer and a small town i grew up in washington which is a pretty small town, if i need to get a record and by any lawyer in a small town i shouldn't have to hire somebody in seattle to go to the courthouse and get those records for me or drive down there myself. i should be able to get them electronically and we take care of things lik

right now the national atmosphering release advisory center at livermore laboratory is monitoring this plume. but they are really only looking at the local effects. they are not necessarily looking at the problems for us in the west coast. come back live you can now see our radiation monitor is hovering about 12 to 14. that's still a very, very low doze of radiation. unlikely however we should emphasize that anyone will have any sort of health effect here in the west coast. reporting live, john fowler, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> in japan, helicopters, heavy duty fire trucks, even water cannons, workers there are trying just about anything to cool the dangerly over heated nuclear facility. this as we're getting new pictures of that damaged plant. from the air and to ground, an all out water assault on the nuclear plant in attempts to keep a nuclear pool from overheating. these new images released by the tokyo electric company shows the destruction caused by a recent explosion at the number three reactor. smoke is rising from around the reactor. radiation levels remain high around the plan

prolonged here to discuss with me is christopher swift a fellow at the university of virginia center for national security law richard thanks so much for joining us tonight pleasure to be back now today hillary clinton is in cairo she's touring toher square and she was talking about how wonderful this is how great the democracy has come to egypt is it a little odd that while she's touring tahrir square they're completely ignoring what's going on in pearl square so she's completely ignoring what's going on in pearl square in fact the secretary of state was interviewed about the situation in bahrain and she used the words wrong track now the words wrong track in diplomatic speak mean oh my god what are you thinking right and the concern here is that what was a domestic dispute in bahrain between the majority shia community and the majority sunni lead has now become a regionalized dispute has become regionalized dispute with the intervention of the g.c.c. primarily led by the saudis and with the predictable i should say a reunion real. ponce to that intervention the difficulty here is that not only