cole on the coverage. 301 receptions with new england. most in nfl history in the first 40 games with a new team, including 14 catches today. that is a career-high. brady, five away from 300 yards. edelman with a move. what a move he makes! picked up six. phil: i think what they were trying to do is fake the short screen pass to edelman and wants to throw it deep down the field. it sent open. tom brady reloads, gets it to edelman and what a job picking up the first down. jim: we would like to welcome those of you joining us now. tom brady and the patriots at the 14-yard line leading by 10. here is the give to maroney. he is down to the 11. brady with that last completion, just tied bledsoe for the franchise record, five straight 300-yard games. that is one off tying the nfl record of six consecutive. want to tell those of you expecting to see "60 minutes" that you are watching the nfl on cbs. patriots have not scored in this second half. they led 24-0. maroney goes ahead. they will say the knee is down about a half of a yard shy. fine game

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that's still beginning to exit across that extreme southern new england region. still the remnants still lashing those areas. from new york city, an improved day with temperatures expected to be mostly into the 60s. that's running about 10 to 12 degrees above normal. also for the deep south, temperatures in the 70s. if you're headed to southern california, the winds are going to be fairly gusty. we're looking at wind advisories for riverside county, san bernardino. watch out, some of those wind gusts up around 40 to 50 miles per hour. for hln, i'm meteorologist karen mcginnis. >>> you could call it a beauty contest, and you can bet someone is really proud of the winner. >> when you look at missy, she has a lot of style, a lot of presence. she knows she's pretty. >> you see, she's a cow and as perfect as cows get. wait until you hear how much money someone paid for her. >>> some people don't buy fresh produce because they say it's too expensive. in some neighborhoods, it's not even app option. one woman is on her way to change that in today's fit nation report. >>

as for the actual rain, the heavy stuff is offshore right now, new england. the cold front does have a few light showers and the possibility of getting into northern new york state and vermont, too. look at the colder temperatures, 30 degrees in marquette. cold air going over the lake waters, the lake superior, lake-effect snow. so you can see what it looks like for the u.p. light stuff coming in. this is all rain when you get across the lake, but once you get to the colder temperature zone right in the inland areas, it all turns into snow. so you see that shade of the radar, that's definite snow. it will be there in the morning and early afternoon and then more snow will pop up late tonight with the clipper moving on in. heaviest rain in the country is still onshore right across florida. that should move in to ft. pierce and down to miami by late today. we'll look at that coming up in a little bit. >> bob, thank you. so actor ted danson took on the religious right last night on "the joy behar show." why he says rush limbaugh and others are exploiting their li

new england, vermont, new hampshire, heavy rain through massachusetts.ton so far unaffected but you can see where it's headed. right in your direction. new york city hanging on to the low clouds and wind for the average, one hour or more. dallas, houston, showers, thunderstorms, san francisco, rain and wind, one hour ho or more delays. a big travel delay day. boston, seattle, rain. philadelphia morning clouds, charlotte and orlando morning clouds but on30-minute to one-hr delays. afternoons look fine in those three cities. >>> a round of botox could take wrinkles off of your face and a few more dollars out of your pockets. why congress is looking at plastic surgeries as a place to fund health care. >>> plus -- >> obviously nobody has super powers. i can't fly. anything like that. >> but he can die his underwear, wear it on his head. that's not stopping him from trying to be a real-life superhero. and he's not alone. super hehero >>> welcome back. 16 minutes past the hour. a woman is facing 15 years in prison over a racially charged incident at a walmart

not much of a travel delay there but you get it across new england and talk about that in a bit. ere's a look at the capitol looking very lovely this morning. >> it is pretty. >> more details in a bit. >> i know that you know the news because you watch this show. so why don't you prove it to yourself. take the cnn challenge. challenge your friends, yourself, test your knowledge. you can pick your favorite anchor. so is hln's richelle carey. play now at cnn.com. >>> two sisters have a business that is right on the money. see how they're using cold, hard cash to make special flower arrangements. also ahead, you may soon have to pick up the tab for the afghanistan war. who is proposing a tax to cover the costs? >>> a window washer is okay after falling eight stories. this happened in seattle. the man was on top of the building when he fell. he hit a window on the way down. his safety rope actually broke his fall before he hit the ground. now the fire department says he was hurt but has nonlife threatening injuries thankfully. two sisters make some flower arrangements that are not flo

light showers across northern new england, mainly vermont and new hampshire, maybe light rain around northern maine this afternoon. it will be really light, won't amount to too much. 35 in alpena, 38 in detroit, up toward marquette, 30 degrees right there. that cold air is racing over the lakes, getting some lake-effect snow out there as well. that's what it looks like, light lake-effect snow but no snow for the mile high city. live to denver, nice start. look at this. >> after all that snow, that is gorgeous. >> it is nice. temperatures back to the 50s. i tell you that snow melted pretty quickly. that is just a gorgeous shot right there. >> it is. >> good morning to you guys. have a good one. more in a bit. >> thank you. >>> the ride to work just got a whole lot easier for hundreds of thousands of people, but the reopening of the bridge linking san francisco and oakland came with a warning. >>> plus -- what a disturbing video of anna nicole smith six months before she died is now at the center of a legal battle. >>> morning, sunshine. i'm robin meade. we salute the troops every morn

here's bob. >>> a little windy for you now, robin, specifically across new england, down through nework city and kind of touching off around philadelphia with some gusty winds but not quite as bad when you get south of ny. we're looking at about the hour or more delays around the new york city metros including newark because of that gusty north wind. on the other side looking at chicago. winds up out of the southeast or southwest, too. winds of about 30 miles per hour is a possibility. boston, gusty winds, shorter delays. san francisco later today, clouds and then rain moved back into the bay area. again, an hour delay yesterday. just about the same thing today. more weather, robin,a bit. >> you've got it. thank you. >>> the first woman to play basketball with the boys is now the first woman to coach them. the first woman ever? >> on a professional level, yeah. >> that's what i wondered. >> i don't know they've actually had a woman coach on the collegiate level but never professional level. this woman, hall of famer nancy lieberman, is incredibly impressive. she played professionally

new england used to have lots of republican members. we are reminded of that with ed burke this week and now zero. republicans in congress. when that happens then you have this hybrid for all kinds of funny things start happening for people that were once rob -- moderate republicans moving to the republican party in the coalition and one is even more but it can lead to more factory within that coalition as we have seen in health care. >> he said one of the big revolutions was increasing tolerance particularly by the on. that doesn't go by populism and glenda back or any of those other things. >> it doesn't but i don't think young voters are paying that much attention. if you look at who is at the tea party use they are not young people by and large. what is this is their life experiences. the fact that they are going to school with diverse racial groups. that they are dating people of diverse races and think very little about it. indeed, the very definition of race is going to change so rapidly. i give you just one example, new ging

something we're going to be watching, as far north as the new england coast. that's something in the cards later today and tomorrow. it's getting towards northern alabama, stretching back towards mississippi. still have the tropical storm warnings for the coast, inland tropical storm wind warnings, see them lower parts of alabama, parts of mississippi too. rain is off shore from western florida, but when you get towards the tallahassee metro area, here's your feeder ban, the main one, where you're going to find all the winds, 45-mile-per-hour winds there. the rain stretches into atlanta, the greens, the yellows, that's heavy downpour action. trying to get in or out of the hartsfield jackson airport it's going to be a tough go. low clouds, rain is here, three or four inches of rain today through tonight and even into tomorrow. more on that in about a half hour. >> not a good flying day for our business folks. flying during the holidays is expensive enough but while you're stuck at the airport you can stay connected and someone else is going to pay the bill. i t

york into boss tovenlt as that cold front approaches you, watch for a windy day to shape up for new england. you can see delays at the airport in boston. good to see you on a monday morning. hurricane, november. doesn't happen very often. >> hurricane ida. we'll be following that. thank you. >>> you know what? we have good news in a bad economy this morning. it's a price war just for movie lovers. and a suspected car jacker thought he was pretty tough until he ran into a cagey 9-year-old kid. >>> specialist cory gafner from his mom, she says cory has a lot of love in his heart. they miss him and everyone is looking forward to his wedding next september. >> hi, robin. this is angela gafner out of texas, specialist cory gaffner's mom. i'm so proud of my son for representing our country. i just want to tell him to stay strong sbb safe and i want to let him know that i love him very much. >> so sweet. do you have somebody in the service? go to cnn.com/robin. we would be honored to help you salute them. >>> the government says that the official unemployment rate is now about 10%, but it's actual

also born in the congregationalist church and from the distinguished line of congregationalists of new england and t.s. elliott converted to episcopalianism and he wrote several essays on it and a very great poem, which we both read called "ash wednesday" and elliott described himself as converting to -- the english version of catholicism. he called himself an anglican catholic. and bill saw himself in a similar way. we talked about elliott and connected his conversion from congregationalist to lutheran, similar to elliott's episcopalianism. did i answer your question? >> which poet do you both like? >> that's a good question. well, i would say this tells you about me, but i am one of -- i was one of the last people around who attended robert frost's final seminar and i -- robert frost, if you read in the lawrence thompson biographies, he set conditions that he would only teach seminar that could be taught in a parlor environment, there would be no grades and there would be no more than 10 men, no women there at that time, and i was one of them, and i have come away with it and when i wanted t

carolinas and a stiff east wind developing by tomorrow afternoon from the outer banks all the way up to new england. so we might be watching for a big-time dw ale, something we're keeping our eyes on. look at the rain shield stretching all the way in towards northern alabama and southern tennessee. tropical storm warnings, inland warnings, of course, away from the gulf. the tropical storm warnings themselves right there across the far panhandle, down to new orleans, including lake pontchartrain. back to the east you see the rain showers coming in and around tampa. the rain is wrapping all the way into areas like alabama. let me show what you it looks like now in alabama. here are the waves, still offshore by about 80 miles. moving up to the north 9 miles an hour. the center of circulation should be sometime later this morning into the early afternoon but no big deal because the rain is already there. the wave action is there. the heavy winds are there, too. >> the rain is the big deal for places that normally wouldn't have to worry about the oncoming hurricane. >> northern alabama, georgia, too. th

he got caught up in the excitement of the game but $250,000, i mean, that's what they fined the new england patriots for spy gate. michael vick was fined 10 grand for doing the same thing to fans in '06. what do you think about that? that is an awful lot of money. does the punishment fit the crime? you are already posting on our facebook page. that is cnn.com/robin and then go to the facebook icon. chris says this punishment is not harsh, for it is the owner of the titans, not an everyday person and we would expect better from him. meanwhile, yeah, way too harsh. that's just ridiculous from ahmadu. cnn.com/robin. >> we're going to get a lot. >> yes, we are. >>> and more mystery in cleveland. the browns endured another horrid loss and they were letting it be known. hey, browns fans, it's our birthday, how about a win, a touchdown, a first down. this was one of the worst games on "monday night football." cleveland's best player is hurt and lay on the ground while the players were on the field. he was taken to the hospital as a precaution. and lastly this video is a little humorous. some colle

well, now it's still beginning to exit across that extreme southern new england region, but still theemnants of that still lashing those areas. but for new york city, an improved day with temperatures expected to be mostly into the 60s. that's running about 10 to 12 degrees above normal. also, for the deep south, temperatures in the 70s. if you're headed to southern california, those winds are going to be fairly gusty. so we're looking at some wind advisories for riverside county, also, san bernardino. watch out, some of those wind gusts up around 40 to 50 miles an hour. for hln, i'm meteorologist karen maginnis. >>> you could call it a beauty contest and you can bet someone is really proud of the winner. >> when you look at missy, she has a lot of style, a lot of presence. she knows she's prettiy. >> mm-hmm, missy is a cow and she's considered as perfect as cows get. wait until you hear how much money someone paid for her. >>> air travel can be a nightmare. but knowing how to work the system can help make it a little less stressful. >> the best way to avoid delays, both on the tarmac

temperatures today into the low 30s when you get across northern new england. the light snow.ot just outside of the boston and the cape and reaching around rhode island but that's about it. you get out of here later this afternoon. away from there, the west coast we're concerned with with the powerful storms coming in. you can see the cold air behind that and that cold air is making that snow range at about 3,000 feet in the cascade mountains in the olympics, as well. you have the rain in northern parts of basically california. you get up to the north further, the rain really gets heavy at times. down south of here, san francisco live picture for you. the clouds are going dobb in off and on most of the day. light showers are a possibility. right now, looks like broken sky cover and seeing a couple of delays because of the rain. mainly to the north and talk about that in a bit. bay bridge looking fantastic. i think that's the bay bridge. yeah. >> gorgeous. >> more in just a bit. >> thank you. >>> you know, this morning, military officials are still trying to figure out what cau

. >>> still breezy for new england. this weather is brought to you by green giant. what's going on across the region? yesterday, a lot of rain. this is how much we've seen. not just 24 hours. it start start ad few days ago. that's a tremendous amount of rainfall. it's all because of the wind straight off the atlantic through virginia and maryland and delaware, jersey, all the the way down to north carolina, too. that low is still in place. it's not moved very far. not as strong today. only 40 miles per hour gusts around the coastline. pab more. yesterday hurricane strength winds. here's what it looks like in new york. you get rain showers coming in. coastal flood warnings are there. p 34 miles per hour sustained winds all along the jersey shore. it breaks up in baltimore, washington, i-95. not as heavy as yesterday but you still get the rain. here's the radar. not much going on inland but the wind have been prolific over the last few days. >> bye bye to the leaves. >>> here's something to be very thankful for in this economy. your turkey dinner will cost you less. n

. >>> the coach of the new england patri patriots, may be one of the worst moves of his career. this morning, the call nobody can understand. >>> plus -- >> sorry for the tragedy the absolute tragedy, of childhoods lost. >> a historic apology from the leader of australia as many as 150,000 children who may have been physically and sexually abused. >>> remember the mayor who confronted a man with an metal bar. milwaukee tom barrett is running for mayor of wisconsin. he said he delayed that decision until he coverford that attack. >> less than three months ago i stood here with my family to thank the citizens of milwaukee and people from all over wisconsin for their heartfelt and genuine well wishes and support in the aftermath of the incident that took place outside state fair. at that point in time, i was not thinking about running for governor. i was hurt. i had to heal and get my strength back. >> now, his hand and head were injured in the attack as you saw in those pictures earlier. he had ten pins in his hand and doctors removed the last two pins on friday. >> i think you wi

gentleman from new england. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. i too will be brief.m delighted that we are holding this hearing this morning. i look forward to the witnesses. obviously what's going on with the swine flu is something that americans are asking lots and lots of questions. we're hearing that this is something that is easily spread, and yet we were told several months ago that there would be adequate sac vaccines. and there aren't. i know people have been contacting my office to find out where they can get vaccines. i think what happened here is people's expectations were rising when the government announced that there would be no problem and people would have enough vaccines for use. i think if that had not been stated or said, perhaps people's expectations wouldn't be so high. but the double whammy of not having enough vaccines plus the announcement that there would be enough for people has made -- have made people think that something is terribly wrong. i've had some discussions with with some of the people testifying today. they have helped to me to u

big coastal type storm develop, not a schmomaker but rain and windmaker through mid-atlantic and new england. it will last through saturday afternoon. columbus, xrornlg george, 5.81 inches of rain, atlanta, right around the charlie brown airport, 4.59 inches of rain, birmingham, almost 4. that's how much rain they had. rain continues, heavy at times, coming through south carolina, stretching through basically north carolina, the entire state seeing rain back into virginia, even towards d.c. let me take you live to walk. here's what the white house looks like, rainy, gloomy. for the entire day, you could see as much as one to three inches of rain today with an additional one to two starting up again tonight through the next couple of days. it's going to be tough for you mid-atlantic all the way to the northeast for the weekend. so what about the radar picture? this is the most active one coming in. it's out of charleston, south carolina. look at hilton head, a lot of rain toward the west, i-95. it's moving slowly shlgs, not severe but heavy rain the rain slide up to the eastern seaboard and p

a weak front traveling and another one around new england. you see the rain wrapped up with that. good news, most of the rain, in fact almost all of it,stays away from the gulf coast over the next five to six days. flood warnings are out there from this weekend's rain and the rain they had over the last two weeks. all the areas there shaded in bright green. flood warning. great news for you. no rain in your forecast. back up to the northeast. light rain across central new york. that's the actual cold front. east coast, northern parts of vermont. this morning now it's gone. the cold air is behind it. into the low 30s across canada. that cold air going over lake superior. lake-effect rain, lake-effect snow. we had that early this morning. look at that radar things are falling apart just a little bit. we'll talk about that again in just a little bit. good to see you on a tuesday morning. weather is good for everybody. >> isn't it nice to see cars over the bay bridge. hallelujah. bob, thank you. >>> remember this video? it's disturbing. it's video of anna nicole smith. and now it is at

you couple that low pressure with the high pressure building in new england, and you also have a lot. look at the greens and yellios. that's an indication of the heaviest rainfall. and the wind advisories are posted, too. and winds are gusting to 50 miles per hour today and that goes all the way up to the jersey shore. and then look at the wind warnings around parts of virginia and delaware and maryland, too. you are looking at gusting about 60 miles per hour. extremely fast-moving winds along the coastline. that's something we are watching. look at the rain around the outer banks there, and that's blasting northward and through virginia and the rest of the state there. and then it wraps back around for you to the western half of the state. and it moves all the way into the northeast today. also, light rainfall in the areas of light blue. philadelphia light scattered showers. most of the rainfall is shy of long island in new york, can you see it there. the wind will be up and the day lays will be there because of this. and we will see an additional, four maybe five inches of rain in

it could be major from atlanta all the way down to florida in to new england and filtering to the rest of the country. it's a major computer glitch. hopefully they get that taken care of. >> just looking at the picture behind you, we never see that. you can count them. >> there's almost a dozen planes on that map. that's not good. >> it's going to be tough for our friends in the airport today. bob is on top of that for us. he'll give you that update. thank you, sir. >> you got it. >>> you think you know the news? prove it. take the cnn challenge. challenge your friends. test yourself. you can pick your favorite anchor like our very own robin meade and she'll talk to you. or you can pick michelle carey as well on the right side. she'll talk to you, too. go to cnnchallenge.com. >>> a mom gave an officer permission to taser her 10-year-old daughter and now she's telling why she called police in the first place. >>> rock, paper, scissors. which one would you use to win the world championship? >>> good morning, dallas. wfaa right now, 6:30 in the morning. what a beautiful sunrise it is at t

that energy will form as a coastal storm by friday off the coast of new england as it merges with anotherin florida, not much happening cross the middle part of the state. we've been watching the thunderstorms in close to miami and fall apart all morning. they'll pick up later today. up to the north, it's gorgeous. this is fantastic. blue skies out there. the high today, 72. the low is 45 around that neighborhood. dry air warms up quickly. 70s by this afternoon. >> it's been pretty cool lately. thank you, bob. >>> dozens of people across the country lost their cell phone service yesterday and now, the service provider is trying to explain. >>> and four people with guns reportedly tried to rob a jewelry store, but you've got to hear how an 84-year-old man stopped them by himself. >>> morning, sunshine. this salute is from marty collins to her husband james jack collins. she wants him to know that she and the family are praying for him and that their two dogs miss him so much. >> my name is marty collins. i would like to salute my husband james collins. i miss you so much. you're the best h

angel is the former editor of the new american -- new england journal of medicine and has said that is the only reform that cuts costs and covers everyone. every other industrialized nation in the world has some form of universal health insurance where it is of basic right. selling for profit is against the law. every industrialized country has that system except the united states. we would change that. national polls show the majority of doctors and americans favor a single-payer system. that is why six months ago quarter of us went to capitol. i stood up and said excuse me, senator, why have you taken single-payer off the table? why have you not allowed one doctor to testify for single- payer? instead of hearing as out senator max baucus ordered us arrested. one by one, we stood up and confronted max baucus and one by one we were arrested and charged with the "destruction of congress." in a plea deal earlier this year we agreed to not open could disrupt congress." since that day max baucus, harry reid, nancy pelosi, and others have cobbled together and comprehensible legislation. it

and that rain will move in towards lower parts of new england. it's not going to be heavy at all. in fact, it's going to be extremely light. pull the picture out just a touch farther and you can see the frost advisory in place for most of tennessee. temperatures starting out on a cold note. mid to upper 30s nashville, low 30s outside of the big city. cold start in mid-atlantic to the midsouth. >> for the first time people are turning on the heat. >>> one of the largest bank robberies in u.s. history has just been filed. that means the government and you collectively could lose billions. the other huge concern is what it might do to thousands of businesses. >>> spectacular crash at talladega that takes your breath away. how can someone walk away from this? >> right on the hood of the 29 car. >>> salute the troops specialist shane story gets an enthusiastic shout out from his mom. he's in afghanistan but was home for a few days last month for the birth of his son parker. >> good morning, afghanistan. it this salute goes out to my son. son, your family and friends miss you ton. i kno

texas and new england are having problems of their own.ll talk about that in just about a half hour. >> busy day. >> a lot going on. especially the west coast. >> west coast. snow. crazy. >> they have to love it, but -- >> all right. it is ski season, i guess. >> yep. >>> you probably heard this story, you know the woman who is accused of cutting in line at walmart? it's what happens after she cut in line that has this town divided and could land her in prison for 15 years. >>> churches, yes they help people out all the time. but one pastor is being told not to feed the homeless. >>> how about this story, a woman is facing 15 years in prison over a racially charged incident at a missouri walmart. check out this newly released video because it might shed a little bit more light as to what happened here. you are looking at heather ellis, she's this woman. she's moving another customer's items off the conveyor belt. well, witnesses say she cut in line and she was swearing. ellis says customers, show though, shoved her and she switched lines t

here's high pressure building into new england.s the difference in pressures that gets the wind going right across the ocean. right now 40 mile per hour gusts right in that vicinity by laguardia airport. big time problems with that. look at the rain coming in through washington out of philadelphia. the other big story, of course, the wind right off the ocean. coastal flood warnings because of the ocean getting pushed on up. high wind warnings with gusting up to 60 miles per hour. rain and wind, 60 mile per hour gus gusts. inland you can see the rain beginning to break up just a bit over the mountains. then it picks up again just south of philadelphia, back in wards cape may. flash flood watches and warnings out here for the afternoon. out west, it's all snow for you for the higher elevations of the sierras and the cascades. tape from california. this is what it looks like. getting a lot of snow today. talking about 3 to 6 inches above about 4,000 feet. how about that? that is live. you can see the streets a little bit wet. there's

to in the book, that gallup, when he started the opinion poll, started to bring democracy of the new england town meeting to large-scale nation state. the idea was radio and newspapers, sending out the views leading on either side, the public would think about it and would reflect their views back in the public opinion poll, which he then felt was a serious instrument, calling it the sampling referendum. he said it would be as if the country is in one great room. the trouble is that he did not know, and he said it would realize the democracy of the town meeting on a national scale in a speech he gave in 1936. . >> the three problems with public opinion are rational ignorance, phantom opinions and the selectivity of sources. rational ignorance is a term that goes back -- social scientists have recognized it -- if i have one vote in millions, why should i pay attention to the details of policy or politics? because my individual vote or opinion will not have much effect, and all of us have a lot more to do in our busy lives. would that it were otherwise. we would like for citizens to spend the

and much the northeast from washington up to new york and southern new england. these are areas where the labor market is weak, there's a lot of subprime lending, and where income growth has slowed like it has hat northeast. northeast house prices haven't fallen as much as elsewhere. they are still a bit overpriced in much of the northeast. i think the mayors with us today might be happy to know that one of the metropolitans areas have a color. that's probably because of you. [laughter] >> so again the turn around will be slow president the unemployment rate will raise, and probably somebody mid 2010 to third quarter. and that employment, payroll employment, which is the blue line. it probably won't return back to its previous peak until maybe sometime in mid to late 2012. and if you take that down to the regional level, you can see where this would have the greatest impact. the colors here indicate timing of when -- when we expect that total payroll employment will recover completely, and reach a new peak. the red states are that. and they will reach a new peak

states in this matter and so it's the west coast lae&y@@@@@@@@ @ @ @ @ @ @ in new york and southern new england and southern carolina which was set by finance. housing finance manufacturing, those are the defining factors that are driving the pattern of growth right now. there is weakness in income and weakness in the labor markets and it generates the first risk that i mentioned. it is an extended period of consumer spending that means that there are weak sales taxes. ak sales tax revenue growth and that will hit cities very hard the depend on sales taxes. it also means fairly weak income tax we will go live to capitol hill. senate democratic leaders are offering their reaction to the health care vote today. >> they should not be afraid to debate. this is the united states senate. the two senators that led the way in this whole process are standing with me tonight. we are sorry that max baucus is not here. there are elements of this bill that senator dodd has worked on for years, issues that you have worked on for many years are now part of this legislation. we can see the finish line, but we

i have lived in new england and vermont and there is not that many people in vermont. they have not such a loud voice for the whole mission there. -- the whole nation there. if they are doing a public service, they should do it for free. host: do you think it is too soon to talk about a second stimulus package? caller: yes, people don't know what is happening in this country among the county's merging and companies going out of business. texas has amassed a lot of the wealth in this country. people need to wake up. texas seems to be a source -- it is almost an act of the people. host: the group acorn is back in the news this morning. the justice department has not awarded any federal grant money directly to the poverty group over the last eight years but $200,000 as mad as way to the organization or its -- has made its way to the organization or its affiliates. in 2000, it was required to provide $290,000 for the committee citizens of new york city to run a crime stoppers program. they had a $20,000 contract with acorn to coordinate with local policeman. an acorn appel

we went on line and found one in new england at half price. even though we lived in washington, that made sense for us. why can we not do that with health care insurance? if you want to deal in america, you have to live by these standards, but we all get to go on and i get to shop for health care plan that works for me while by 24-year-old assistant it's a different one that will be cheaper and doesn't that make sense? >> it does make sense and is going to be mixed up because i'm going to agree with dick armey. [laughter] >> i was a governor for 12 years. i do not trust the federal government very much. [applause] i would rather have this done by the states. >> we have to finish up, but i have to ask, the cbo came up and i don't hear the media talking much about the steady buried two fridays ago that said if we pass meaningful tort reform, we will save $54 billion. why can democrats make that part of the deal? >> a bunch of reasons. tort reform is essentially a state issue and not a national issue. less than 10% are filed in federal court. it

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in the north of england to my new job at the refinery in the south. i'll never forget.ith oil. a new car today has 95% lower emissions than in 1970. exxonmobil is working to improve cars, liners of tires, plastics which are lighter and advanced hydrogen technologies that could increase fuel efficiency by up to 80%. ♪ boy why you so obsessed with me ♪ ♪ and all the girls say, obsessed, why you so obsessed with me ♪ >> larry: whitney houston, who has been put in the diva category, you and she did a duet. but she has had trouble he is endured. how do you think she has come out? >> you know, i don't really follow all the tabloidy, internety gossipy sort of stuff. because when i worked with whitney, i had a great experience. >> good or bad. >> she is pretty good. she has influenced thousands of singers. that's what she should be, people should talk about. because i don't know her personal business. and i really have a hard time believing most things are true. >> larry: you know rihanna? >> yes, i do. >> larry: what did you make of that story? >> i can't imagine if i had been

matter compared to the fact that the land that is produced in new zealand is produced under natural conditions. if it is grass that land and england the land they were comparing it to was produced under confined animal feed lot conditions and industrial conditions. the energies in clause in the form of production. it wasn't in the distance of the land troubled. another example involves tomatoes. if you what local hothouse tomatoes, tomato is to grow with input of heat and under artificial conditions and we bought those locally, it would actually be ten times more energy inefficient than if you got tomatoes grown naturally on the other side of the world. and, you know, these examples are really more than anecdotal. i think the point to

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england that was more of the top down society. there was much less present -- prejudice. despite all of this experience that would have made me very optimistic on some new levels, i have developed an increasing sense of pessimism about where we're going in the future. the main reason for that, frankly, is the propensity of the american system now to produce weekly -- leadership to paralyze that leadership. without it, we will have a difficult time solving the myriad of problems that we are trying to grapple with. the emergence of this kind of leadership where, in a sense, the national interest is put more head of the political interest -- it has always been a part of the history of the united states. what worries me is the rare inability of leadership to concern itself -- to discern itself as leadership. we're living in york where someone came out of the wilds and gave the impression for a very long time that he put the interest of the city ahead of his own political interests. for that reason, his role was enhanced. this is a country that is hungry for that kind of leadership, and we don't see it very often. this is the exception to the rule. what worr

bush has talked about, clinton has talked about, the prime minister of england has talked about all the time. this is part of the neworld order. this is what's going to happen. we need to fight these wars. these men want this to happen and they're going to make it happen. i want to know what you know about the new world order. if you don't, you would understand it, you know why we're fighting. thank you. guest: um, i'm not entirely too sure what he's referring to. i know the phrase any world order. i will end up actually defering your question and answer it this way. since 1991, since the end of the gulf war, since the end of the cold war, have we changed the way we've done business in a foreign policy and defense policy around the world? i don't think we really have. i think our state departments moved some bureaus around. our defense department moved around some combatant commands. but as far as how we defend real national security threats to our nation. have we really eff involved in the last 20 years in how we take those on? i think that's another debate we need to have. how do we actually address these threats

england and has continued to be from the beginning to the present. homicide rates in the chesapeake briefers a century of the crime and increase rapidly in this period. homicide went up in new york city in the 1790s. there was much domestic violence and multiple family murders, more than any time in our history. through the whole history of the 19th century. more occurred in this period, multiple murders where father kills his family, which inspired charles rockton brown first novel. irving became much more prevalent and much more disruptive. drinking of hard liquor reached a peak never been duplicated since. americans were consuming $5 per person, the highest we have ever consumed in the history of our country. at higher than any other nation in the world, with the possible exception of scotland. [laughter] >> everyone was drinking, and did you exclude the fifth of the population who were slaves who didn't have much access to alcohol, that figure of 5 gallons per person really goes up. so you understand where the temperate movement comes from. it took off in the 1830s because of the dragon problem. a little town in vermont with 1500 people in ad 30 distilleries. everybody

england that was more of the top down society. there was much less present -- prejudice. despite all of this experience that would have made me very optimistic on some new levels, i have developed an increasing sense of pessimism about where we're going in the future. the main reason for that, frankly, is the propensity of the american system now to produce weekly -- leadership to paralyze that leadership. without it, we will have a difficult time solving the myriad of problems that we are trying to grapple with. the emergence of this kind of leadership where, in a sense, the national interest is put more head of the political interest -- it has always been a part of the history of the united states. what worries me is the rare inability of leadership to concern itself -- to discern itself as leadership. we're living in york where someone came out of the wilds and gave the impression for a very long time that he put the interest of the city ahead of his own political interests. for that reason, his role was enhanced. this is a country that is hungry for that kind of leadership, and we don't see it very often. this is the exception to the rule. what worr

new agency. i m little worried that to create to that agency would take a long time. >> when we treated homeland security, it took a long time to get that agency going. bringing up englandaises points. there it too-big-to-fail banks are being broken up. why not ours? >> we will have to see how this plays out in england. it looks like they're moving to break up some of their biggest banks. there are different ways that banks are combined now. one is just how big they are coming terms of size of assets or size of liabilities. another is water all of the big banks allowed to do? no investment banks are part of commercial banks and the stand- alone investment bank model kind of fell apart in this crisis. so there are very few -- there are only two left and they converted to bank holding companies so that they could get rescued. i think we will have to see how this plays out. certainly, the argument of the two big to fail, that we cannot have big, menacing, too-big-to- fail institutions that are unregulated or lightly regulated and squeezing themselves between the cracks and turning the whole system, everybody agrees on that. i think that, if you go through the white paper o

new york times" and two other papers. i also read the charlotte observer. i have a funny story about a small island. the isle of wight, a tiny little place off the southern coast of englandi was there and i brought one of their daily papers home. i took it to the market and waited. it weighed over 2 pounds. host: the newspaper weighed over 2 pounds? caller: and this was not inserts'. if it was news. host: was it the sunday paper? caller: no, it was the wednesday paper. it was the "isle of wight county press." agreed for newspapers when i'm here on the internet. -- i read foreign newspapers when i'm here on the internet. host: one more call here. peter in philadelphia does not read a paper. not happy with the philadelphia papers? caller: it is so slanted that you cannot really get the news out of it, sir. if they gave it to me i would not read it. host: where you get your newspaper, -- your news from? caller: i go to c-span, rush limbaugh, fox, the internet. i google loved a particular subject -- i google up a particular subject. i get the real story. host: thanks for your calls this half hour. next year will turn our attention to food borne illnesses. this is erik olsen