the gentleman from new york is recognized. mr. meeks: how much time do we have? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman has 7 1/2 minutes remaining. that is not including your four minutes. we need unanimous consent to accept your minutes. >> without objection. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california -- does the gentleman from california ask unanimous consent? >> i'd be happy to yield four of our minutes which would give us two minutes remaining is that correct? the speaker pro tempore: that's correct. mr. miller: i ask unanimous consent to do that. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. the gentleman from new york is recognized. you have 11 1/2 minutes. mr. meeks: thank you. it's my pleasure to yield a minute and a half of that to the gentlelady from the great state of florida, the honorable corrine brown. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from florida is recognized for one and a half minutes. ms. brown: thank you, mr. chairman. i stand in strong support of debt relief act for the earthquake r

glad to be home. >> i like it. >> home being new york. >> new york, new york, baby.ime you walk out. and my good friend, collier meryl, he had a baby, didn't get married until he was 48, i think, and had a baby at 49. >> oh, he's going to be so tired. >> i'm tired just thinking about it. we've got to go. >> harold, thank you. we are so over. pete is in big trouble in the control room. >> melissa, thank you very much. >> prayer meeting. >> we'll bring you around. >> i'm a big fan of prayer, actually. >> you'll evolve on this issue. >>> coming up, is senator barbara boxer showing signs of vulnerability? she has some new competition in california. politico is next. >>> also, the whistle-blower that went unheard. we'll talk to the man who cracked bernie madoff's ponzi scheme years before his arrest. he's my hero. you're watchingmonger "morning- >> i thought i was your hero? >> sure -- brewed by starbucks. hey! increase in 6 months. pete, back it up! ( marker squeaking ) when business travel leaves you drained, re-charge with comfort suites. spacious rooms, free hi-speed

gentlelady from new york. ms. slaughter: i ask unanimous consent to submit the following for the record. a one-page document explaining why the requirements in the bill are not unconstitutional. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. ms. slaughter: thank you, mr. speaker. i'm pleased to yield two minutes to the gentleman from rhode island who is not only a valued member of the house, but whose father dedicated his life to helping with this. mr. kennedy. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. kennedy: i urge us to go forward with the rule on what have of -- on behalf of the 22% of my constituents under the age of 65 who are uninsured because they're too young to qualify for medicare or too middle class to qualify for medicaid. quote, no memorial, oration, or eulogy could more eloquently honor his memory than the earliest possible passage of this bill. for which he fought so long, his herlt and his soul are in this bill. while the above quote could easily refer to my father, and the context c

i learned that as mayor of new york and they have a good year and big bonuses, new york city has big tax revenues and you can support good people, and they have a bad year and deficits, you have the cut the programs for the poor people. so the reality is that this is a very important part of the way our economy operates, and when you make war on them, and you make it more difficult for them to see profits, you are never going to see this economy recover the way it should. >> well, some people are saying we are seeing that with business overall, because they are facing higher taxes and higher health care. >> well, this is a preference for government, a all the answer for everything, and what it ignores is that government played a bigger role in the financial problems than business did. >> somebody said on the weekend show that there were 400 regulators on aig. 400. how did -- >> well, you know -- >> this whole idea of 400 agencies miss aig? >> because they don't know how the regulate. government doesn't do -- except for maybe defending us against foreign enemies and protecting us dome

lee, new york city. caller: i have a medical billing service -- host: you deal with those 30,000 medicare cuts? calle -- codes? caller: exactly, and the real problem is with the standardization. each insurance -- we have to adhere to each insurance's specific rules, and they can change the rules any time. some of them will accept some of the codes, not all them, although we have these books we should adhere to. it is a big problem. host: united health and blue cross do not have the same coding system? caller: they may not. they may have the same system, but they do not pay for the same codes. each insurance does not have to accept all of the codes in those s.

we start in new york. new york politics suffered two body blows this week. one occurred in washington, where longtime congressman charles rangel was forced to temporarily step aside from his influential post as chairman of the house ways and means committee. >> in order to avoid my colleagues having to defend me during their elections, i have this morning sent a letter to speaker pelosi asking her to grant me a leave of absence until such time that the ethics committee completes its work. >> ifill: rangel's troubles began in 2008, with reports he misused rent-controlled apartments in new york city. a house ethics committee probe has also been investigating allegations that rangel failed to report more than $660,000 in assets and $75,000 in rental income from a villa he owns in the dominican republic. last friday, the ethics committee found rangel violated house standards by accepting caribbean trips financed by corporations. rangel said he had no knowledge of the corporate support, but the committee's admonishment unsettled house democrats. after house speak

this morning's "new york times" reports that among those officials were the future pope when he was cardinal ratzinger. the paper says this involves a wisconsin priest accused of molesting more than 200 deaf boys. new documents show repeated warnings about the priest, the vatican did nothing because of possible embarrassment to the church. this follows the resignation of irish bishop john mcgee, a former papal aide. he failed to follow his own rules of reporting pedophile priests to police. >>> the balloon boy father is back home after his stint in jail. he will serve the rest of his sentence under house detention. last october, heene told authorities his 6-year-old son drifted off in a homemade balloon. but after a frantic effort to save the boy, it turned out heene and his wife knew the boy was in their home all along. >>> a day after a spring storm buried colorado, nine inches of heavy, wet snow fell in denver. and some suburbs saw up to two feet. the storm knocked out power to thousands and forced schools to close. and airline delays and cancellations left thousands of passengers scrambl

in new york state, girls were 13 points ahead of boys. at the ronald mcnair high school in jersey city, new jersey, english teacher don dello says he sees the difference. >> in an english classroom, there's always been a tendency for the girls to be more interested in the literature than the boys. >> they just have a lot more focus. and i think they tend to spend a lot more time devoted to reading. i mean, guys are more into sports and being outside. >> reporter: even in math, a subject in which boys traditionally have done better than girls, girls are now roughly even with boys nationwide. why the difference between the sexes? in reading, one theory points to differences between the brains of boys and girls. girls' brains are more verbally oriented, which makes reading skills easier for them to acquire. boys' brains are more visually stimulated. another theory is that boys are more physically restless than girls. recess time has been cut in some schools in the push for better achievement test scores. >> they can read. but they need to be

he was also treating the owner of "the new york times" for bipolar disorder. there's also smith, a psychologist and friend of freud but they continued to correspond throughout this time and he was treating some of the most famous patience and you're concluding mabel dodge and members of the roundtable. he was even treating the mer stress what a life to the cowrite in the limo once a week and it was also the story of josephine a bacteriologist and neurologist, vaccine researcher and was a public health official at a time less than 5% of medical students were women. and this is a fascinating time and brain study when world war i started they were wearing leather helmets amazingly enough. by the end of the war the switch to steal but nonetheless there was a lot of brain damage done getting physical brain damage getting neurologist's the chance to understand mapping the brain better and damage to the psyche helping pave the way for psychiatry. and was the beginning of near zero surgery. this was a generation of neurosurgeons actually had no one to train them, they

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new york seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman from new york is recognized for one minute to address the house. >> thank you, i rise today to commend the forerunner of today's women's military pilots, the women's air corps service pilots, they flew more than 16 million miles. from 1943 to 1944 they delivered aircraft for manufacturers in the united states to air bases throughout the country. two women from my district. virginia, and elizabeth, are being awarded the congressional gold medal today in recognition of their service to our country. their fearlessness led the way to future women military pilots. it is long overdue we recognize these incredible women. our country thrives because of the bravery of citizens like wasps. we learned last year the ceremony was going to happen, her family told me it meant the world to her but she passed away in september of 2009. but

from new york university and his jd degree from the new york university school of law.urning to our next panelist, i am certain most of you know judith kaye. prior to her new career as litigation group. you are under understandably aware her career has been distinguished by many. the first female partner in the law firm she worked in prior to becoming a judge. indeed, she was the first woman to ever serve on new york's highest court and she was the first female chief judge of the court of appeals. she served as a chief judge of the new york court of appeals for 15 years until her retirement, so to speak-- yes, in 2008. she gained a national reputation for her groundbreaking decisions and her innovative reforms to the new york court system, including changing the jury system and establishing community and problem-solving courts. her reforms have been implemented by many other state courts in our and are internationally known. john whitman, the current chief judge, was quoted in the new york state bar association journal as saying quote, chief judge kaye's legacy demonstr

we now take you to new york. and the cbs evening news with katie couric.d of course, we'll see you right back here. bob is going to be leaving right now to go out and get his cabbage and corned beef, right?, >> couric: tonight, the president says it doesn't matter what procedure the house uses to pass health care reform. >> if people vote yes-- whatever form that takes-- that is going to be a vote for health care reform. >> couric: i'm katie couric. s a tonight, a frantic race to save a city. the people of fargo build a wall of sandbags to try to hold back the rising waters of the red river. on this st. patrick's day, the pope faces a child abuse scandal in ireland and in his native germany. and taking it beyond beyonce. school kids reading, writing, rapping and racking up hits on the web. ♪ all the scholar ladies... captioning sponsored by cbs from cbs news world headquarters in new york, this is the "cbs evening news" with katie couric. >> couric: good evening, everyone. president obama and democratic leaders in the house are doing everything they can to

rehema ellis, nbc news, new york. >>> now to news on the housing markets. still struggling badly, even though the government has made a huge effort to prop it up. prices are down 28% from the peak back in '06. 1/4 of american borrowers own more on their mortgage than their home is worth. that led to bank of america to announce today it's taking a step it hasn't taken before. our report from diana olick. >> reporter: in the spring housing market, the number of foreclosure signs is growing, driving prices down further across the nation's neighborhoods. one out of every five home loans in the u.sis held by bank of america, the nation's largest mortgage company which took on 12 million loans from failed countrywide financial in 2008. as part of that deal, b of a is launching a small test program that gives borrowers back their equity, about $3 billion worth. >> we are starting with this program and going to test it here and hope to expand it in the future. >> reporter: in fact, the program could be the model for a change in the treasury's modification plan. >>

and still to come on the "newshour"-- two political stories: democrats facing ethics troubles in new york, and republicans vying for conservative votes in texas. plus, veterans getting special treatment in court. and the aftermath of the earthquake in chile. >> ifill: but first, with the other news of the day. here's hari sreenivasan in our newsroom. >> sreenivasan: a string of three suicide bombings in iraq killed at least 32 people today with national elections just four days away. all of the attacks were in baqouba-- a former insurgent stronghold northeast of baghdad. two bombers targeted government offices. but the third pretended to be a wounded military officer, rode in an ambulance and blew himself up at a hospital. most of the wounded from the first two blasts were killed in the third attack. in washington, pentagon spokesman geoff morrell said the violence will not change plans to withdraw all u.s. troops by the end of next year. >> neither this attack or previous destabilize the government have been or will be successful nor do we anticipate it will derail our drawdown of forces

also about the trial in new york. i think they ought to have the trial in new york for khalid sheikh mohammed. the only reason why they are not trying it in new york is because they don't want the truth to come out about 9/11. it has nothing to do with safety. we put criminals away every day in federal prison. this is just a lie. they ought to have the trial in new york so we can find out what happened in 9/11. because we know the fear retail's that this government's bond is a lie. and anybody but the media knows that 9/11 was corc. host: senator lindsey graham was joined by outgoing indiana senator evan by who also joined him talking about closing of guantanamo. here are some of the comments he had to make yesterday. >> the president is realizing, wait a minute, if i want to get some of what i what i have to compromise. everybody has to check their ideology at the door and tried to find practical solutions. the president under lindsay's proposal will make major strides in the war of ideas. john mccain would be for th

the chair recognizes the gentleman from new york. mr. mix: madam speaker, i ask unanimous consent -- mr. meeks: madam speaker, i ask that all members have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks on this legislation and insert extraneous material thereon. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. meeks: i yield myself five minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. mr. meeks: -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman will suspend, please. if we could get some order. if -- will people please take their conversations off the floor. the gentleman will proceed. mr. meeks: today, madam speaker, we consider an issue close to all of our hearts. haiti suffered a devastating earthquake on january 12 of this year. the country, which was finally making strides to a more stable and economic political role after so many failed governments of the past was rocked by a natural disaster of historic proportions. the images of the disaster are pressure fresh in our minds and the desire of the globa

another round of snow for parts of update new york. imto half a foot in maine, plus wind gusts between 30 and 50 miles an hour. snow in the southern rockies through the gulf coast states. >> 46 in dallas. 60 in new orleans. 73 in miami. boston gets up to 39. baltimore, 38. atlanta, 54, 30s across much of the midwest today. and 60s from seattle to sacramento. >> well, it's all over in vancouver. last night's closing ceremonies had its stranger moments including some that involved inflatable beavers and moose. and canadian mounties. >> the athletes are looking forward to a black sea russian resort in 2014, that is if you're counting just 1,439 days from today. >>> and u.s. versus canada in men's hockey may have been the most exciting. the u.s. was down 2-0 before tying the score in regulation. canada claimed the goal with an overtime goal. we will have the final olympic count. >>> and some squabbling takes thousands of federal workers off the job. >> a presidential checkup with a nasty habit. >>> and more on the top story. day three of c

"the new york post" reported this on friday. i'll put it up. president obama pushed wavering house members to okay health care legislation for his own political standing and theirs to maintain a strong presidency we need to pass the bill, obama told liberals according to one representative who attended the meeting. to main taken a strong presidency. elaborate on that. >> well again, i think the president has laid out comprehensive health reform as a primary agenda item, not because he doesn't have good health choices or because it's easy politically. but because he feels it's fundamental to fixing the economy, and fundamental in terms -- >> to having a strong presidency is what he is reported to have said. >> i wasn't in that room. what i can tell you -- >> you work with him. are the stakes that high, his agenda in peril if he doesn't get this? is that what's at stake? >> i think what is in peril is health security for millions of people. small business owners currently are having to choose between hiring a worker or two or having health insura

i did the same thing when i went to upstate new york. i got involved in learning the african-american history of upstate new york. which, by the way, is very vibrant. a lot of the underground railroads ended in upstate new york. so they have a very vibrant african-american community and history up there. but when i left albany, new york, to come to washington, d.c., i knew i was hitting the mother load. washington, d.c., i knew, had to have a strong african-american history component to it. i came to d.c. and immediately began working in the u.s. capitol. and like all tourists, the very first thing i did when i came to washington, d.c. was to take a tour of the national mall. but when i got there, i noticed something. if you just came to washington, d.c. and just went to the national mall, you would almost believe african-americans never lived in this city. i went from one end of the mall to the other from the capitol all the way down to the lincoln memorial looking for the african-american history of washington d.c. and i could barely f

for ruining my reputation in new york city. [laughter] >> i knew that dao's story was true right then. and more than that i recognized his feelings. and not just in my daughter. i could imagine myself in his place fearing not the -- fearing the eyes of strangers. fearing not the darkness of the park or what might happen to me if i surrendered myself to sleep there, but the disdain or pity of stranger who would never be anything but strangers and i thought i could find a way into his story if he decided he would let me tell it. as he eventually did. the other day someone told me i was a purposive writer. i think that's a word. [laughter] >> by purposive, i think she meant writing that aims to expose and analyze important problems and offer persuasive solutions but somehow it seems important to say that i don't deserve that compliment. other writers do. writers who understand that the world's recurring catastrophes, the grossly inequitable distribution of help and civil war and genocide aren't accidents but the products of socioe

. >> the gentleman from new york -- the gentlewoman from new york, ms. maloney. >> thank you to paul volcker, a great president of new york state, and we are proud of your contribution to our country and your public service. there's a great deal of concern about the proposal in the dodd bill in the senate regulatory reform proposal that limits the fed's banking supervision to banks that are larger than $50 billion. first of all, do you see a need to make a distinction between large and small banks? and i would specifically like to comment on the federal reserve's interest rates steady by the federal open market committee which met yesterday, comprised a federal probe -- federal reserve governors, the president of the new york fed, and on a rotating basis, the presidents of five of the regional reserve banks. does this have an impact on the fomc's activities, first mr. bernanke and then mr. volcker? >> if we of the regulator of only the banks, we are thinking that is a bad idea. we need to see a broad financial system. we need to have the information abou

according to a "new york times" blog the first lady reportedly said to a waiter at new york's famousa that the pizza was better than chicago. that's what she said. having lived in new york and chicago, the best pizza is -- i don't have an answer because i haven't been to grimaldi's yet. when i go i'll answer. those are the things we thought you should know. grimaldi's sorry for mispronouncing the name of your famous store. >>> we know kids like to play cops and robbers. however, some parents in new york city are fuming after an interesting addition was made to the neighborhood playground. take a look. a play jail, complete with bars, a lock, and a sign that reads, jail is being called inappropriate. the jungle gym outside a housing development has been on the playground for six years but when a picture was posted on the website black brown news.com outraged complaints followed and it prompted city officials to remove the word "jail" and paint over the lock. listen to what one parent who has a 6-year-old daughter told our local affiliate wnbc. >> to send a message like jail is where y

caller: "the new york times" and "the new york daily news" news "newsday." it is a racist rag.do have in my stack and we will perhaps around to it. and screen input. we are reading an article from "the new york times" about nuclear strategy. they write that mr. obama has complained in recent months that he has failed to break through the bush era national policy security policy in some fundamental way. west hills, randy, independent. caller: a couple of points. the strategy about nuclear weapons in the middle east and the second is about the media in general. first i want to say, regardless of what obama does or decides to do, he would be a lot more effective if people in this country were more unified behind him as they were behind bush after 9/11. the danger has not passed. we still face great danger from terrorists around the world. and for the republicans to say they want to see obama failed -- failed, i cannot fathom any more leverage for terrorists to see our in fighting like this and to see half of our country basically calling for obama's neck and went to see him fail a

it is a soggy, rotten start to the day here in new york city. brian is off and in his chair, we've got peter johnson jr. good morning to you. >> good morning to you, peter and we have to start with some tragic news, fox news alert coming out of russia today. two deadly blasts rocked moscow's subway system during the jam packed rush hour. officials say two female homicide bombers blew themselves up killing at least 36 people and wounding dozens of others. russian authorities suspect terrorism but no groups have come forward yet to take responsibility. the last time moscow's subway system was attacked was in 2004 kek kekian rebels to chechen rebels took credit for the bombing that killed 10 people. president obama is on his way home right now after making the surprise visit to the troops in afghanistan. it's his first trip there as commander in chief. how did it go? joining us from there, lieutenant colonel oliver north. good morning to you. >> gretchen, amazingly enough, most of these troops don't even know he was here. we're down in the southern

other states like new york, new jersey, even pennsylvania, give their private and parochial schools $200 million for this similar bill. back to you, vic, on tv hill. >>> the archdiocese says the 13 schools will close on june 30th. >>> nine children and at least one adult were hurt today after a school bus crash in baltimore county t. happened -- county. it happened around 7:00 this morning. two school buses and another vehicle were involved in the collision. all of the injuries are reported to be minor. >>> and another bus crash. this one in anne arundel county, has injured more than a dozen people. sky eye chopper 13 is over the scene, just before 3:00 this afternoon. happened at the intersection of crain highway and central avenue in glen burnie. 14 people were taken to area hospitals with neck and back injuries. >>> tonight, investigators still don't know why a man shot and killed his ex-wife's fiance before turning the gun on himself. wjz stays on this still developing story. weijia jiang is live at state police headquarters. with more on how loved ones are remembering the victim ton

elaine quijano, cbs news, new york. >>> there's a new around the world sailing record.rew crossed the finish line saturday off france. it took 48 days, 7 hours and 44 minutes to sir consume and a half gate the earth. they beat the previous record by more than two days earning them a jules verp trophy. it was it the third attempt at the record by the french skipper and his crew. later they of course celebrated with champagne. >>> i'm michelle gielan and this is the c"cbs morning news." atch ] ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] you wanted to quit smoking so many times, but those days came and went and the cigarettes remained. ♪ today's a new day. talk to your doctor about prescription treatment options and support. and this time, make it your time. >>> good morning. i'm and roan. here's some story we are following for you. >>> the house passed a historic overhaul of the nation's health care system. the vote came last night with republicans unanimously opposing the bill. president obama says the measure is a victory for the american people. house members also approved a separate set o

a holocaust industry was reviewed in "the new york times." although i remember the day it came out, norman said that he checked back into the archives of "the new york times" to see how they had reviewed it when i came out of there some satisfaction that they reviewed considerably kind to them, their review of the holocaust. so they do cover him. in infectors in "the new york times" last week as a movie just came out about him called a documentary called american radical and they ran a big piece in the up section. i think it will be in "the new york times." it's not beyond entertainment tonight. i could be wrong, i turn -- >> it has to be one for the mainstream. >> so we made a video, asper taylor, who is a very good documentary filmmaker made the examined life to really take documentary, made a documentary with norman talking about the book. if we had to cut footage for more than just him sitting there, we cut footage of hawser into it and put that on our side entre site and on youtube. if they're not up for even a couple weeks. you think ma

it's in albany, new york.s very close to where i grew up. [ cheers ] my sister, gloria went to sienna. i myself applied to sienna, and i didn't get in. [ laughter ] that doesn't matter now. none of it matters. all that matters is that the 13th-seeded sienna saints have a very realistic chance of beating the fourth-seeded purdue boilermakers in the first round of the tourney on friday. yeah, they're going up against purdue, so it's going to be tough. but they're our official pick for this year's ncaa tournament. so that means they're going to go all the way. go saints! [ cheers and applause ] we got a fantastic show tonight. the talented young actress from the new film, "the runaways," dakota fanning is here, everybody. [ cheers and applause ] she's fantastic in this movie. fantastic in every movie. from the critically acclaimed show "flash forward" actor joseph fiennes is joining us. [ cheers and applause ] he's awesome, too. "flash forward" is like a "lost" type of thing. it's a cool show. and we got music fr

since i had planned to set the book most of the book set in new york. i mean we dealt with the original medical records, so it was both fascinating and sat in that respect. the new york academy medicine and columbia health science library books contained just boxes of medical records and at that time the doctors kept a lot more extensive and personal information about patients which enabled me to develop these as real people and characters because there was so much information and most of the medical cases. but then again a lot of the files were destroyed. i would like to have seen more but when the decentralized a lot of the institutions in the 70's they destroyed a lot of the medical files. other questions? anyone else? okay. thank you. [applause] >> mary caldwell crosby is the author of the american plague di on told for story of a yellow fever the epidemic shaped history. her writing. several publications including usa today, "newsweek" and health magazine. davis-kidd booksellers in memphis tennessee hosted this half-hour evened. for more informatio

and that's "the new york times" which is no radical paper. and obviously has a wide audience, a well written, researched piece. so, it is becoming increasingly well-known and this is nine years into that conflict. and there is quite a large body of literature. you know, alfred mccoy wrote the pioneering book in the early '70s and peter dale scott's been researching the cia involvement and i was surprised, myself, before i researched this i saw it as maybe of conspiracy theory but it is only when i went into the national archives and there was evidence in the book and found memos from government officials, for instance the ambassador to laos, would be communicating with the state department, saying, you know, these guys are corrupt up to their ears, but are fighting a war for us, so, you know, there is nothing we can do and that is candidly expressed in many memos and now those would only be accessible to researchers. yeah, my sense of the public is not aware of a lot of things. in part because it's not covered in the media and "the new york t

the pursuit...of perfection. >> larry: former congressman eric massa of new york is our guest. the ethics investigation apparently stems from your behavior at a new year's eve wedding in which you tousled somebody's hair, and then in an interview earlier today you acknowledged at your 50th partial-birth day party you groped a male staffer. what is this all about? >> well, when four guys jump on you to wrestle you to prove you're 50 years old, anything can be called anything, larry, and what it's all about is innuendo. it's all about using language to destroy people. you know, i don't get to know who my accuser is. i don't get to know what the accusation is. i don't get to know any of that. and, in fact, i never will because there is no ethics investigation because i'm not a member of congress anymore. >> larry: so it's moot. >> i can't fight, that represent my district and run for re-election and the health care bill and, oh, by the way, i may have cancer. i've got to prioritize my life, but here's what it's about. i took responsibility for my life because clearly somebody, some

when a new york he favored delmonico but in washington he rotated the larger lobbying dinners for more than a dozen guest among hotels and metropolitan clubs and occasionally john chamberlain's new club. when he came to special dinners for only seven or eight to test all made the rest on 15th street olden days shown by a belgian would do. arguing for paraguay before the war he gave his most select vendors in the privacy of his home. he had a two-man staff and a loyal secretary and the second sets of eyes and ears around town. inventing cullinet rules and recipes and lives because there would split them up the back embroil them. in consultation sam took great care and composing every meal from the lobby dinners to the grand bank board's he orchestrated. dependent upon the numbers of the enemy that would be reduced to capitulation by the projected bank with come each course must be exclusive but small. sam word manage his guests should never be satiated. the oyster paddies were so perfect and so small that the next course would be anxiously awaited this is for the banquet sam planned in

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this is what two feet of snow locked like in new york. say new yorkers are not creative and sometimes a little crazy, too. well, before we bring on the little rockers i want to update you on the art works that twin brothers jerrien terry lynn painted here on our show. the beautiful patriotic theme painting, spirit, 8,300 dollars on ebay and through my partnership with the wanna play fund all the proceeds from the action will help provide musical instruments for kids across america. it's time for one of our favorite parts of the show, kelly wright to feature on a marvin gaye tune, let's do it "what's going on" >> that's right. ♪ oh ♪ mother, mother, there too many of you crying ♪ ♪ my brother, brother, brother ♪ ♪ there's far too many of you dying ♪ ♪ you know we've got to find a way to bring some loving here today ♪ ♪ father, father we don't need to escalate ♪ ♪ yes war is not the answer, only love can conquer ♪ ♪ you know we've got to find a way to bring some loving here today ♪ ♪ take it light, take its time, don't punish me with brutali

all right, emily smith here in new york. thanks. >>> south carolina governor mark sanford is trying to put last year's scandal behind him. sanford has agreed to pay $74,000 in fines to resolve ethics charges filed after he admitted to an extramarital affair with a woman in argentina. and a judge has approved his divorce from his wife, jenny, after 20 years of marriage. >>> the fbi is examining a photograph taken in aruba that may show human remains on the ocean floor. the report suggests a possible link to the disappearance of alabama student natalee holloway in 2005. it was taken by a pennsylvania couple who was snorkeling in shallow waters off the resort island. they say they didn't notice the ghostly image on the seabed until recently. >>> actor fess parker died yesterday at his home in southern california. parker was a tv idol for the baby boom generation playing a hero in a coonskin cap. walt disney chose parker for the role of davy crockett. the show was an instant hit. kids were soon wearing the caps. he went on to ot

imagine seeing that float by in new york city.oolchildren in egyptian headdresses and former new york mayor ed koch, who was in office in 1979 back when the first exhibit came to town. >> the king tut exhibit opens to the public in a month. >> not the strangest thing you've seen in new york city. >> might catch your eye. >> yeah, it would. we'll be right back. at participating stores brr! it's another cold one out there, so you'll want to cover up those hands before you hit the sink. um, i said "cover up." or your hands will be in for a long dry spell. [ male announcer ] when the forecast calls for winter hands, it goes beyond dishwashing to help your hands seal in moisture while you do the dishes. [ sponge ] so smooth. so soft. who could have predicted that? [ male announcer ] for a money-saving coupon... [ sponge ] visit dawnhandrenewal.com. >>> medicare reform is a big part of the health care reform overhaul signed into law by the president yesterday. >> and the government has already admitted $60 billion is stolen from medicar

new york, sunny at 68. miami, mostly cloudy at 66. chicago, 64. denver, partly cloudy, 65.es, 84. >>> time now a check on the national forecast. the latest satellite picture shows that skies are still cloudy over the southeast after yesterday's rain, but it's clear from the ohio valley to the northeast coast. now, later today, showers will continue to be scattered across the southeast. it will be another gorgeous day throughout the northeast. and that great weather will extend across the ohio valley and midwest. the southwest stays sunny and pleasantly warm. >>> let's turn now to sports. a big night for houston point guard aaron brooks. visiting memphis led early, including a big one-handed slam by rudy gay in the second quarter. but brooks came on strong, including a long three-pointer in the third quarter. and he just kept sinking the outside shot scoring seven triples without a miss and a career-high 31 points in all. the rockets won it 107-94. >>> in orlando, san antonio's tim duncan had the worst game of his nba career. dominated on the boards by the magic's dwight how

first up new york governor david paterson proposing to send hundreds of thousands of dollars of new york's the admirable social cause of improving the sex lives of a few lucky prison inmates. in his 2010/11 budget, he included funding for two double wide trailers in upstate new york at the correctional facility. the purpose of the trailers conjugal and family visits. price tag just short of 1 million bucks. facing a $9 billion deficit and one of the highest tax loads in our country especially when you add in new york city and the rest of this nonsense to try to dig his state out of the hole, paterson proposed cutting aid to schools and hospitals and closing state parks, ending restocking of nature conservatories and delaying income tax refunds for new york residents who work and pay taxes but we'll get double wides for the prisoners to have sex. apparently a new set of budget priorities has taken over our state here in new york. >>> republican congressman steve king who last night had trouble distinguishing between political friends and enemies after the health care vote king walked outsid

from "the new york times" on the israeli visit, "visit and a pickuhiccup. he condemned plans for new housing in east jerusalem." a couple of other photographs here, from "the washington times," "secretary gates, telling troops that their units have been losses in pushing against the taliban, with another photograph here -- taliban," with another photo here as he arrives. west palm beach, florida. chauck. caller: good morning. there is an issue affecting every american, it is called greed. it has moved on to the pharmaceutical manufacturers and the fda. fda is one of the most inadequate agencies of american government. basically killing people because of their decisions, they are owned by the pharmaceutical companies. there is research out there that proves that that drugs are ineffective and can cause harm they had hearings -- cause harm a furious they had hearing the other day. it is just a big joke. the simplistic reasoning of the fda and the american public that perpetuates the greed is the reason our economy is in such a bad shape. host: we are going to

and today came word that freshman new york democrat eric massa will resign monday. he had already announced he would not seek re-election, citing health reasons. >> now i'm a direct, salty kind of guy, and i run at a hundred miles an hour. and my doctors have clearly told me i can no longer do that. >> suarez: massa did not directly address a male staffer's complaint that the congressman made unwanted advances. house republican leader john boehner said the ethical issues add to doubts about democratic leadership. >> it looks like chaos on the other side of the aisle. >> suarez: but illinois democrat luis gutierrez dismissed the criticism. >> we all know how to walk and chew gum at the same time here. if these things were to paralyze our caucus, then i think there would be evidence of that. but all i see is energy and vigor and discussion and debate, and trying to find a way the american men and women the health care they so deserve. >> suarez: and others, including tennessee republican zach wamp, said scandals can hurt everyone. >> these ethical lapses on both sides

lindsay davis new york. >>> a new york man has been sentenced to life in prison for a 1999 rape in maryland that was found after dna evidence. investigators noticed dna from the victim had not been added to the national dna database. once it was added investigatorred were linked to mays. he'll serve a sentence in maryland after he is released from prison in new york. >>> in ann arundel county police solved a colds case of rape. donald of wisconsin is charged with rape, assault and stalking. a 13-year-old girl was walking home when she was assaulted and rape. dna led them no the man. he is currently in custody in www.wisconsin and will be vozp returned to maryland. >>> let's take a look at tonight's top stories. the truck driver involved in yesterday's light rail crash in hunt valley. the 53-year-old drove his tractor trailer into the train's path. the train operator was seriously hurt. he was in stable condition tonight. two passengers on the train were also injured. >>> more than 600 baltimore city employees and 120 police officers and 90 firefighters will loose their jobs under a budget p

is louis armstrong's home in new york a library at this point or is it open to the public? me that. not only is it a museum, but i'm speaking there on saturday. they're throwing a back party for me and i'm going -- book party for me and i'm going to give a shorter version of this talk in harm strong's own home. it was restored it its original condition a few years ago and opened as a museum and i must tell you, if you have the slightest interest in louis armstrong, you must go to this place, because the walls breathe his essence. it is one of the most amazing house museums in the world. thank god that it was preserved, and is the way it is. so i'll be thinking of you all on saturday afternoon, when i go there and speak there. oh, the tapes. ok. there are 650 reel to real tapes. armstrong -- i'll tell you the whole story. armstrong bought one the first commercial tape recorders ever told in the united states in 1947. and binge crosby bought one of the others, by the way, and at first, he bought it to record his shows, so that he could listen to them, and perfect them, a remi

right outside of new york city.inspiration was watching one of those catch the predator type shows and wondering, what would i do if i saw somebody on this show that i knew? what if it was somebody that i new and trusted? what i believe them? these stories come together and shocks the entire community and hopefully will shock the reader. you'll be surprised by the way it ends. >> we have a very an aprop pree eighty tie in. >> you'll find an excuse not to write and say, first, let's put aluminum siding on the house, everything to avoid that moment. so i need the white noise and i've been writing for years at different starbucks. i move around to keep people at bay. >> and even if you're out of your house on a computer, i wonder how the yankees are doing. there's no safe place to go anymore. >> how does his description of your neighborhood, your town -- >> he lives there. it's right on. it's a bedroom community, leafy green. but i thank god, at least in my lifetime, that nothing like this actually happened in that tow

there hasn't been a word of this in the "new york times" or usa, one paragraph in the gossip column of the "washington post." do serious news outlets times just pretend these things are not going on? >> they are not in touch with the conversation that is really happening in america. people love this stuff. why do they love it? here's a woman who has an oscar, a hot body, she's got great clothes, right? and now she has a cheating husband. now, my self-esteem has risen because hers has been taken down. and it's the same thing -- >> i'm glad there's some benefit. the tattooed alleged stripper, michelle "bombshell" mcgee -- >> this is why you wanted to do that, you just wanted to say that. >> my belief is this -- it's sort of going with lauren, my belief is if there's a large audience out there interested in it, there is usually something going on that's important sociologically with the story. our job as journalists is to find out what is going on sociologically with the story and explain it. >> am i the last man in america who has never heard of jesse james. >> probably. let me get you i

from new york good night america. >>> welcome to "red eye." it is like mayberry fd if by d you mean b. sandy, what's coming up on tonight's show? >> "avatar" director has harsh words for global warming deny yes, sirs. we will translate them into nav scpi then back to english. can you inject an an net thete particular into your brain for fear? if you are a goldfish, yes. and fetish videos with spiders and goop. greg? >> thank you, andy. >> and don't forget we have dinner with the coopermans. >> do we have to? >> they were very good when you were having the problem. >> you never let me forget it. >> it was just not a good time for me or my self-esteem. >> bye. >>> they are fiery, fabulous and fantastic. enough about crates, let's welcome our guest. she is wanted in five states for being excessively sultry and arson, i am here with andrea fox news .com contributor and columnist. she is so bright that sailors fire her into the sky as a distress signal. she is cuter than porage made from puppies. she is the washington examiner columnist. it is the

all i want to know is how is my parade is going to go if i'm flying to new york. >> new york looks gooderatures today mid-60s and really nice up there. tell you, trying to get in or out of atlanta, not so good. live with the tower cam low clouds in place and there's atlanta, tower cam shows basically just cloudy skies and that's the way it is going to be for the day with occasional showers. here's what we're calling for, so far nothing. zero delays. good day, good start and half hour is a possibility and atlanta as that rain slides through northern florida and central florida, watch for half hour delays around orlando and tampa, too. light showers moving in towards miami. that's it. everybody else ought to be fine. more on that, robin, coming up in about a half an hour. >> thank you. >>> the top 12 contestants on "american idol" took on the rolling stones for gave the judges satisfaction. >>> and the search continues for a woman and her son who some people say just vanished. >>> in about three weeks tiger woods is going to return to golf at one of the biggest tourneys of the year, the m