print nextel cuts prices by $10 a month -- sprint nextel. an extra $30 will provide 12 gigabytes. the deals do not apply to smart phones. amazon began shipping le fire.nd of >> the ipad still dominates the computer tablet market. the fire soon arrives. >> these companies are smart enough to know not to go ahead on against the ipad. they are going after a different market. >> there will look to serve with tv shows and movies as well as games. neither the fire or the tablet have cameras. each is it wifi-only device. they carry a much smaller price tags. >> for the person that does not build their lives around technology. that is where i think these towels will find a home. >> the fire is priced at $50 less than the tablet. the barns and product is more about today. amazon talbot speaks about how we will use technology tomorrow. people want a chance to choose with their wallets starting this week. >> attention filling the air in the occupy move in new york city. jane king has the bloomberg business report. good morning to you. >> watching the applications that kids download on drio i

warner cofounded the cell phone company, nextel. >>> "usa today" found that 58 members of congress are among the 1% of richest americans. 35 are republicans. 23 are democrats. the median net worth of a member of congress is $891,000. that's nine times the typical american household. >>> east carolina university is on lockdown after a man with a gun was seen on the street that runs through the campus. university spokeswoman says the order to secure offices and buildings came shortly after 10:00 this morning. authorities say that the residents halls and other buildings are secure. campus and county police are searching the area for a suspect suspect. >>> still to come when the news continues, if you're looking for a career that's really out of this world, nasa is looking for a few good men and women! >> well, the president is ruffling a few feathers during his trip to australia. find out why some in the international community are upset over a plan to send several thousand u.s. marines there. we'll be right back! >>> president obama is in australia, announcing plans to increase america's

nextel will be the start of the excavation, which we anticipate just around the first of the year. a low traffic, the -- a little graphic, cdsm is under way, both on the north and south sides of one and two. pre-trenching is complete in most areas with some left to do it in a coma and down on the west end or the throat with the trains will enter, the train box. and then to buttress work in the corner of zone four. some of the various areas on the site. the cdsm operation -- did want to include that one picture on the right there. these guys definitely earned their money and probably pay a lot in washing clothes as well. it is a very muddy operation. we would like to point out that as of tomorrow, if all goes well, there's two yellow circles will be covered in green and completed and that will give us nine completed shafts to date. that is what we callc li -- call the c line on the left side and the m line on the right side. it is definitely an marathon and not a sprint as this will be going on for the next year and half, but the equipment seems to be working well and the team seems

they'll be using shortphones donated by sprint nextel and the kareeding device that plugs into phones. those are your tech bites. i'm rob nelson. >>> angry birds in an unusual place this week. you can see a stuffed toy floating on the soyuz spacecraft after it entered orbit. it took off from daz stan sunday carry -- from kazakhstan sunday carrying an american astronaut. three astronauts who had been on board the iss since june, they're going to return to earth next week so it's not really the angry birds game out now for an pp. it just made an appearance on the spacecraft. >> just about anybody can hitch a ride with the russians if the price is right. >>> good morning you to. 50 new york and philly. 52 richmond and ocean city. that is the edge of that mark. it's 40s and 30s to our west. that is what's spilling in. yes, this is from the top of the hour. so if you check back in just after 6:00, the latest update from bwi, we'll be in the 40s as the cold air is spilling in from the north and west. here's the essential look today. we've got some showers on radar. we'll highlight that now

one of the drug houses that was being operated was out of drugs, whoever was working would use the nexteld more product. and then you would see duck driven over in the escalade go over to the chestnut street house, pick up a pack, drop it off, pick up the money and then take off. >> it was interesting and disturbing at the same time what the customer base was. there were people from all walks of life. bheem looked like they had just gotten off work and stopped at the drug house to get their fix. people who were clearly on their way to becoming addicts. young people, teenagers, people from all walks of life. >> you know, many times your victims are not the best citizens themselves. but they're still a victim. how did they get to this point? they are taking their life in their hands to go a neighborhood they know nothing about to walk into a house they know nothing about. there is guys in here with guns to purchase a little bag of powder. what went so wrong in their lives to put them to that point. and this is a small part of a huge picture. how big is this drug problem throughout the world

the nextel to come -- still to come. >> it was the strongest earthquake to ever hit the minute limit. hear from a woman on top of the washington monument that day an,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >> 56 degrees today. clouds increasing on wednesday. we start to see rain approaching very late. thursday could be an all-day rain even areawide. the rain moves out. temperatures drop. 52 on friday. with improvement, more sun. >> right on the national park service is rushing to get the earthquake damaged washington monument ready to withstand bad weather. you may remember this dramatic video. workers are plugging as many try to keep winter weather from causing any more damage. there's still no target date for it to reopen. >>> imagine the terror felt by tourists inside at the very top of the monument on that quiet summer afternoon when the earth shook. >> park ranger nikki williams tells us, it's the day she will never forget as she fought back fear to get everyone out safely. >> good morning. she's been called the hero of the summer strictly. now she says the experience could change her life. >> reporte

>>> a lawsuit against at&t will go forward, sprint nextel can sue at&t over the acquisition of rival team usa. they asked them to toss out the suit that will create the company's largest phone carrier. >>> they took on more debt than its predecessors, they showed the average college loan debt to be $25,250 upon graduation up 5% from last year. college graduates faired better with about the average debt of $18,000. >>> presidential campaigner herman cane, what he is telling reporters who keep asking questions about sexual harassment allegations. >>> take a look at this, how the car got submerged and what happened to the driver. >> good morning, northbound 101 looking good, but there is a big problem in marin county. hey guys, what can i get for you? i would like a decaf 360 calories please. and for you? i'll have a triple iced 410 calories please. you want the 40 whipped calories on that? uh, you know what... i'll have this instead. [ female announcer ] swap one thing a day for a yoplait light. with 33 flavors all around a hundred calories, a swap a day adds up to amazing. now you can

nextel phone call for dr. groves is from cleveland. good morning. c-span.good morning, i'm 33 years old. cleveland has been hit crippling hard since 2008. myself and my children have had to move back home with my mother. this is the first time i've had to go back home with my mother. host: how old are you? caller: i have four children. host: you brought your four kids home, too? caller: yes. we had no choice. in cleveland, there's no jobs. although there's tons of vacant housing, there's no housing. like i said, my best friend is in the same situation. she just had to go back home with her daughter. host: let me understand the composition of your household. so was your mother live alone before you came home? caller: my mother is living with her godmother who is 92 years old. host: and how old is your mother? caller: 63. host: so a 90-year-old, a 63-year-old, and now yourself. how old are you. caller: 34. host: and your children's ages? caller: 14, 11, 10, 9. and then my mother is fostering my two nephews. host: my goodness. caller: it's pretty full.

formed by sprint nextel, this council includes ibm, sysco, samsung and other major tech players.nteresting to note that google and apple are not in the mix. sprint says it welcomes new partners to the council but still two very high-profile no-shows. >>> tomorrow six men complete this pretend mission to mars where they were cut off from the real world for, what, a year and a half. why? >> that's right. i'll tell you why. on friday, again, 2:00 p.m. on friday, they'll announce this mission to know where will be over. this was all a simulation. six crew members with the european space agency, they a deal with 18 months of cultural barriers. a fake capsule in moscow, on board, three russians, two europeans and a chinese man. they spent more than 500 days in windowless isolation. their only contact with the outside world was over the internet and phone lines with a 20-minute delay. it's all part of the $10 million mars 500 project. they want to show astronauts can handle the toll of a far-flung journey to the red planet. these crew members were the lucky ones. in this mission they ha