as a small-scale investment advisory business led by a gentleman, walter noel, who had a pretty good reputation on wall street. not just in us money circles, but in foreign money circles, as well. he attracted a partner who also had a... a good track record, jeffrey tucker. they joined forces and got fairfield greenwich up and going. >> smith: walter noel's assistant remembers how, at first, they struggled until they found madoff. >> jeffrey just told walter, "i've got this guy who's got really impressive returns." you know, "come meet him. let's look into it. maybe there's a product we can develop." once they created fairfield sentry to invest exclusively with madoff, that's when things really started to accelerate. >> smith: and what attracted them was not just madoff's steady returns, but an unusual fee arrangement. >> madoff didn't charge them any fees. he said, "i'm making all my money on trading through my market-making operation and commissions, and so i won't take any fees and you can keep it all." >> smith: for a feeder fund like fairfield sentry, those client fees added up

>> noel. >> jimmy: noah? why are you from? >> noel. >> jimmy: oh, noel, sorry.my: noel from queens, very, very good. all right noel. place your phone here in the hacker -- what is this guy? is that a phone? [ laughter ] looks like a -- okay. japanese cookie or something. [ laughter ] all right. i think it works for japanese cookies as well. let's put this in here. listen to your voicemail here. >> hey, noel. >> jimmy: rewound the tape somehow on it. >> erotic bakery in queens calling, we have your giant penis cake ready to go. >> jimmy: oh my goodness. >> this is one weird cake you requested. i mean, i've never seen a penis cake with three testicles. but i guess it's based on the picture of the boyfriend. >> jimmy: oh my gosh. >> i'm just surprised we could fit that many testicles on a giant penis cake. >> jimmy: oh my god this is -- >> by the way, you never did say, did you want a vanilla penis cake or a chocolate penis cake? >> jimmy: all right. thank you buddy. [ laughter ] >> if it's gonna be a chocolate penis cake, man, we're going to need a bigger pan. [ l

thank you. >> knoll, before you go -- hey, noel -- we lost noel. we'll go to ohio. al, democratic caller. good morning. >> caller: good morning. i agree with the last caller. he's a little late on the pipeline. he had, you know -- he got the speculators that he's the one that got all the gas. i'm a democrat, and i know he's doing wrong. first of all, that pipeline, he should have agreed with that right off the bat, because they studied that for three years. so, you know, that right there got the speculators. and now he's trying to executive order the pipeline? that's strictly for election. and now when iran said they were going to close the strait of that muz off, he did nothing. he should have told them and said nationally that they were going to put some battle ships in there, and a couple carriers and tell iran, that's international waters, and the u.s. is not going to allow it. then get the speculators to do it. so he put us in this position and now he's doing everything he can to get out of it. he's got nine months. >> all right. the president is going to be ta

author finance expert monica mota and strategist noel. noel, why don't we start with you?hat does this mean for mitt romney now? >> it doesn't mean a thing. he has the delegate count. he is going to be the frontrunner. he is going to pass through this. he has a lot of the big donors. newt has something personal against mitt romney anyway. we all know this. santorum's wins in the south that is where he is strong. it's socially conservative. they are paying attention to the social issues and he is their candidate. it wasn't a real surprise that santorum did so well in the south. >> when you look at some of the exit polls we have been breaking those down through out the morning. it is interesting. majority of voters say the most important thing to them is beating barack obama. you would think mitt romney might have won just based on that alone. give us your take on that? >> it doesn't appear to be how the voters are behaving at the polls. the best chance we have for a referendum on obama is mitt romneyment we are finding people are turned off by his lack of passion and the fa

but that depends on the tips that come in from the public, reporting live, ktvu, noel walker. >>> and looking for another missing bay area resident. why service members were involved in today's search for a missing camper. >>> we're on storm watch tonight as a slow moving system gives the bay area even more rain. the steady rainfall kept up for for most of the day. tonight, the winter weather advisory is posted for the sierra nevada. here is what it looked like on the san francisco side of the golden gate bridge. gray, drizzle, traffic was moving not high wind warnings were cancelled earlier today of the elsewhere in the city there was just enough rain to wash off some of the pollen popping up lately. not enough to add to the totals this evening. >> and steady throughout the day, ktvu has more on what parts are getting hit right now. >>> and heather, the rainfall rates are picking up, in fact over the past two to three hours as you can see on storm tracker two radar, the bay area is mostly covered with the light shades of green. it is a small difference, but they indicate more moderat

noel walker reports from san francisco and tells us how a small start up has become a political health care debate. >> the goal of health care reform is all about access. a local company says it is providing life-saving access to patient records through computer software technology. [cheers and applause] >> reporter: it was a media photo op and a big day for a san francisco start up. [cheers and applause] >> reporter: house minority leader picked the 2nd anniversary of the affordable care act to tour practice fusion's new digs t. it provides free web-based health records to doctors. >> when i started the company i did not have health insurance for four years. >> reporter: now, the growing company is a trickle down beneficial of the affordable care act. >> it is bringing down cost, improving quality, and expanding access as is the purpose of our affordable care act. >> reporter dubbed obama care, the affordable care act expands insurance and government mandates on what insurance should cover. next week the supreme court will hear arguments on the acts constitutionality. across the count

noel keep his collection?>> before it came here was in an abandoned train station in downtown louisiana, downtown shreveport. that building has since been torn down. it was sold to the city of shreveport for a railroad newseum, and was considered to be too costly to refurbish it so they tore it down. it is now, or it used to be on the side of the hilton hotel where the little cafÉ is on the corner. at one time somebody told me there was an oil well near those tracks so it was not ideal environmental conditions to have it in the railroad station, but most of the books are in pretty good shape considering the conditions they were in. you see there is a lot of empty space there. that will eventually get built back up as we get things catalogued. and this is one of the books that is probably the most interesting. this is the book of costumes that was printed in 1807. it was owned by a former actor, whom a lot of people may recognize. and we don't know for sure that he uses to design his costumes but you will proba

march featured shreveport, louisiana with book-tv at the noel memorial library. >> mr. noel was a local man who lived here most of his life and he started accumulating books when he was a teenager and continued until he was in his 80s. over his lifetime he accumulated over 200 now volumes. >> if we have a gem in the collection it is probably going to be this one. it's one of the books we're most proud of. it's in the original binding from 1699, and it was once owned by a very famous scientist. you can see he's written his name i. newton, and we're not pulling it out so much anymore because it is starting to flake away on the title page. >> at american history tv looked at civil war era medical practices at the pioneer heritage museum. >> pioneer medicine is a long stretch from what it is today. you consider that, the things that we take for granted today when we go to the doctor, things like the instruments being as germ-free as possible or the doctor has washed his hands before he's decided to work on us, and we use the term loosely for doctors when we're talking early

noel keep this collection? >> before it came here, it was in an abandoned train station in downtown louisiana, downtown shreveport. and that building has since been torn down. it was sold to the city of shreveport for a railroad museum and was considered it would be too costly to refurbish it, so they tore it down. it's now, or it used to be on the side of the hilton o hotel where the little cafÉ is on the corner, and at one time somebody told me there was an oil well near those tracks. .. we don't know for sure if he uses to decide his costumes but you will probably recognize his pictures in here. these are hand colored plates and when rudolph valentino of this book it was at that time 100 years old so he is trying to find the source. if you come this way, this is the little room both rooms were selected by one person. there were 200,000 volumes and we take up two third of this floor. it is arranged in basic categories and have our catalog them they are pretty much staying together but things are getting a lit

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. >>> battle for the noel snakes moves to illinois, rick santorum and mitt romney are campaigning hard ahead of the prom primary. >> reporter: mitt romney greeted voters in illinois explaining why he should win the state's gop primary. >> i had to get us the energy on the ground we needed to keep the money, that's spent buying energy from other people, keep it here. put people to work. >> reporter: romney rolls in to the next contest with momentum from his overwhelming victory over the weekend. >> 20 delegates, all delegates that were in the contest are ours. >> reporter: holding on to more delegates than all his rivals combined. romney is stepping up calls for hopefuls to step aside. his chief challenger, rick santorum vows he will fight to the end. >> the convention will nominate a conservative, not the mad rat candidate from massachusetts. >> reporter: san tom claims romney is outspending him 10- 1 ahead of the primary in illinois. >> mitt romney is systematically run a negative campaign, no positive vision for this country, and spends billionaire dollars to tear down every opponent

. >> noel gonzÁlez, telemundo. >> otra breve pausa. >> al regresar el voto latino en estados unidos,Óvenes y aquÍ las familias crecen, con los aÑos se hacen ciudadanos, la posibilidad de elegir a sus gobernantes es posible si se hacen ciudadanos. >> y muchas veces las familias no dejan un solo voto en la urna sino varios, cristina londoÑo con la nota. >> menos del 2% de la poblaciÓn es hispana, pero se puede decir que en esta casa vive un bastiÓn de votantes latinos. >> no sÉ cÓmo hemos podido crear en este paÍs una familia de 12 niÑos. >> huyeron con tres hijos y uno en camino en la guerra civil, aquÍ tuvieron ocho mÁs pero como millones de inmigrantes, al votar no olvidan su historia. >> yo estuve 7 veces detenido por la Única razÓn de trabajar para la iglesia catÓlica. >> como catÓlicos practicantes son fÉrreos opositores del aborto y uso de anticonceptivos, motivo que les llevÓ a votar por rick santorum, aunque entienden que son minorÍa se oponen a republicanos y propuestas. >> hay caso de gente que se ha sacrificado y que han dado en este paÍs. >> son merecedores de tener el der

>>y noel llego solo, no quiso soltar prenda. >>tito el bambino emocionado porque será padre. de lo vivido con la reina del texmex >>fue un evento espectacular, el momento sublime fue cuando rc anthony fue homenajeado por estos tremendos artistas >>y cuatro de nuestros colegas también fueron premiados anoche, muchas felicidades, por los temas de la copa de oro y latin grammy opening. >>y tremendo susto paso la cantante gisselle cuando sujetos entraron a robar a su departamento. huyeron con prends ,cámaras y una computadora >>y ricky martín y su familia engalann la portada de vanity fair y su pareja. habla de la ley del matrimonio en parejas del mismo sexo, habla de como escogio a la mujer con quien tuvo a suhijos >>la mansion que ahora es hogar de los duques de... abierta desde el sábado, luego de permanecer cerrado por varios meses por remodelacion. >>y para muchos les pareció eterno los 45 segundosles parec eterno los 45 segundos en que >>no tenemos esta nota, muchos contaron su experiencia a traves de las redes sociales fueron 45 segundos eternos. >>mientras tanto en repúbl

here our two of our children -- klara, noel -- their papa -- and the two older boys are playing sports." >> hello. welcome! the kids generally aren't here during the week, but on the weekend, after i get home from work, we often sit together and watch a little tv or discuss various things. the kids all have laptops on their knees, and of course, they're busy with their e-mails and facebook. >> this is a williams-pear schnaps from our canton. it's made from a special type of pear, and we usually serve it when we have special guests. while i'm cooking, i can see what everyone in the family's doing, and that's a lot cozier than if i were off in another room. i don't cook all that much, though, because we've got a hotel. a really nice cheese fondue is something our kids love. it doesn't take long to make -- you don't have to prepare much, and everybody likes it. >> we live in a catholic region. we're devout christians, and we go to church every sunday. you really can't call this typically swiss. we work together in a hotel that has a lot of wood in the interior. so we decided if we ever go

march featured shreveport, louisiana with book tv at the noel memorial library. >> it was a local man who was born here and lived here most of his life. he started accumulating books when he was a teenager and continued into his 80s. over his lifetime he accumulated over 200,000 volumes. if we have a gem in the collection, it is probably going to be this one. one of the books we are most proud of. it's in the original binding from 1699. it was once owned by a very famous scientist. you can see he has written his name, i newton. we are not pulling it out so much because it is starting to flake away on the title page. >> american tft tv looked at medical practices. >> pioneer medicine is a long stretch from what it is today. things like the instruments being as germ he free as possible. or the doctor washed his hands and we use the term loosely. a lot of these doctors were self-taught or worked under somebody else and getting ready to retire. they would learn as they went. >> our cities tour continues the weekend of march 31st and april 1st from little rock, arkansas on c-span 2 and 3.

special collections at noel at lsu shreveport. we're specializing in the history of documenting the history of northwest louisiana and the red river region. we have here today some of the, um, things that we consider the stars in our collection, one that we're proudest of that kind of is the opening of what one would consider northwest louisiana, i think, is the clearing of the raft of the red river in 87 p 3. this volume is a collection of 107 photographic plates that were taken by r.b. talfort to document the aggression of the clearing of the raft in the red river in 1873 between natchitoches and just about shreveport. it was particularly important, it was the last, most successful clearing of the red river raft, and it enabled shreveport to become a really important trading port for the rest of the 19th century. unfortunately for some of the crew of the aid with the army corps of engineers, their visit to shreveport coincided with the yellow fever epidemic of 1873 which just decimated the population. lieutenant eugene woodruff

introduce our head table guest and i would ask each of you to stand up briefly ced.ou from your right, noel waghorn, associated press. keith hill, bloomberg bna. pam hyde, administrator, substance abuse and mental health services administration and guest of our speakers. angela king, the reporter from bloomberg news. i'm going to skip our guests. we have allison fitzgerald, freelancer and speaker's committee chair. and again, i'm skipping our guest. robert carden, speaker committee member who organized today's event. sherry gleed, assistant secretary for planning and evaluation, u.s. department of health and human services. ed eisley, editor "the hill." john mulligan, providence journal. and tracy jann, "boston globe." washington these days, but it can work. just ask former congressman patrick kennedy, a democrat from rhode island and his friend and one-time colleague jim ramstad, the former republican representative from minnesota. in to 2008, these two co-sponsored the mental health act to treat mental illnesses as they would treat physical ailments. the legislation is considered a landma

i also think noels of this work is reflect in testify international assistance accounts and i thank the committee for its smort of those budgets. i would conclude on that point by saying, at the same time we saw that extraordinary disaster, that afternoon we had a chance to see some of our "feed the future" programs working. we saw kids receiving orange flesh sweet potato and the impact it made on their health and livelihood. we heard of farmers at a research station working with skrooin tilss that were mp doubling and tripling their yield of maze and in kenya alone, about 4.5 million people didn't need assistance because of improvements in their agriculture over the last few years. and that's the trend we really want to see on consistent way. >> thank you, dr. shah. >> you mentioned about specific evaluations which i think are very important as it related to our famine relief but also as it relates to all of our programs. feed the future is an issuive of the obama administration. you've mentioned it several times in your testimony just recently on dealing with nutrition and life and al

this all started, folks, at 9:39 this morning in kensington along connecticut and noels.s is right in front of the same shell gas station are where one of the d.c. snipers killed someone years ago. here's what happened according to police. they say that the suspect was stopped at a red light. he had fired his gun, killed a woman in the car. the woman was later identified as heather lynn mcgwire. police say the suspect then opened the door of that car, threw her out and then drove off. soon after that is when phillip gilberti was named a suspect in this investigation. that's when police began a region wide search for phillip. they searched throughout kensington, throughout aspen hill, all areas of montgomery county. late this evening they got a tip he may have been here in the college gardens area. that's why police came out to this area, a s.w.a.t. team was here just like you heard chief major explain. they located the house they believed he was at. when they did have an opportunity to look inside, they found the suspect dead inside from what is believed to be a self-infl

beginning to end: the red river campaign of 1864" then a look at the 2,000 books of the james smith noel collection at the shreveport archives. then a walking tour of shreveport and bowsier city with neal johnson, on "american history tv" on c-span three, from parks dale air force base, a look at the base's role on 9/11, plus a history of the b52 bomber, also visit the founding father's autograph collection at the state exhibit museum and from the pioneer heritage center, medical treatment and medicine during the civil war. shreveport, louisiana, next weekend on c-span2 and 3 >>> freedom itself was at tacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended. i want to reassure the american people that the full resources of the federal government are working to assist local authorities to save lives and to help the victims of these attacks. >> i was at home asleep when we got the phone call, and an editor of mine said that i needed to head out to barksdale because a plane had crashed into the world trade center and they thought it might be an attack on the country. >> i had

. >>> otro que asistiÓ es noel, que es un hombre casado ahora. >>> te veo con el anillo puesto?. >>> bello lugar para la luna miel. >>>la gira no me ha dejado de ir de luna de miel. >>> el grupo modo rato se presentÓ sin alejandra que se recupera en un hospital de mÉxico, de una segunda operaciÓn en sus glÚteos. >>> se quejÓ de dolor?. >>> no, ello siempre estÁ increÍble. >>> fue una noche maravillosa, que naciÓ la campaÑa por una buivision@@primer impacto >>> que bien. >>>.primer impactounivision@@prm pudieron ir pero@@primer impact muerte, chris pÉrez, ricky vela, josÉ ojeda ys a tu billÓn formaban los di vos. >>> vienen con una propuesta muy interesante. >>> muy diferente a con lo hemos hecho en un pasado. >>> hace unos aÑos me jactoiviÉn mi comimer ietounivision@@prime ramÍrez, y me hablaron y dijeron sabes que estamos haciendo un disco nuevoer imp cunivision@@p del grupo de chris, yacto querÍr si quieres participar, dije claro que sÍ. >>> compuso los temas y aceptÓ ser el vocalista de la agrupaciÓn que se llama ruido aÑejo. >>> por mÁs proyectos que tengan, llevan la marca

coward and the president and watched noel coward become more and more vulgar with each story he toldtable. it's a miraculous thing. and it was the beginning for me, of those sorts of adventures in people. >> elizabeth taylor is someone i think you met her, she was a more mature woman. >> 12 years ago. >> okay. had a few dates. is that accurate? am i portraying this correctly? did it ever develop into a serious relationship? >> no. >> you describe her as not the bejeweled person that a lot of us now remember. you talk to her more about her being more fragile and lonely. >> yes. it's actually one of the -- there's no theme in the book but one of the things i did figure out when writing it was how difficult it is to overcome all of the toys that people had in life. the fame, the money, the success. ultimately the fundamental things become so essential to you as you get older, and if you haven't paid attention to those things, the very basics of life and the toys become your weapon, so to speak, against self, you find yourself isolated and becoming lonely, becoming distant from the world

. >> i'm going to have david or noel get back to you on that. >> from focusing on the intent of the macro, which are the coal mine issues themselves, as opposed to other deeds. >> i interpreted it by looking at them now targeting the return on the aml money, the abandoned linemaned money, it's going to where the need is. >> right. >> where we've with always said. >> the savings would be that basically we're able to clean up and put land in production. i would with assume that's the effect you all have. >> does everyone agree to that? >> now where i disagree. >> you're afraid -- >> concerning the osm and the bureau of land mines, the merger, i can't find anybody that seems to be in favor to think this would be a good thing. i don't see the generation of savings for the disruption of how the operation -- and osm, it's been a long, long term relationship learning how to work. as a partnership, making sure there's a balance between the environment and the economy. going into the blm or recommending that merger. i know you're doing it on trying to -- from cost effectiveness, and i can understa

. >>> otro que asistiÓ es noel, que es un hombre casado ahora. >>> te veo con el anillo puesto?ugar para la luna miel. >>>la gira nme ha dejado de ir de luna de miel. >>> el grupo modoato se presentÓ sin alejandra que se recupera en un hospital de mÉxico, de una segunda operaciÓn en sus glÚteos. >>> se quejÓ de dolor?. >>> no, ello siempre estÁ increÍble. >>> fue una noche maravillosa, que naciÓ la campaÑa por una buena causa. >>> que bien. >>>. >>> el conerto fue auspiciado por ritmo sol latino, alguno nos pudieron ir pero se sumaa travÉs de comercial. >>> maÑana se cumplen 17 aÑos de la muerte de saa lena y dos colaboro lardz recuerdan como lo fue la reina de la mÚsica texana, hablan del grupo divo. >>> (♪). >>> fue el grupo que acompaÑÓ a selena hasta el dÍa de si muerte, chris pÉrez, ricky vela, josÉ ojeda ys a tu billÓn formaban los di vos. >>> vienen con una propuesta muy interesante. >>> muy diferente a con lo hemos hecho en un pasa. >>> hace unos aÑos me jun tÉ con mi compadre y otro compaÑero ramÍrez, y me hablaron y dijeron sabes que estamos haciendo un disco nuevo con

ktvu's noel walker reports. >> reporter: just glance around the red box coffee shop in mountain view and you know the apple doesn't fall far from the tree in cupertino. >> i own their products so every day it reminds me, it's a good company. >> reporter: kevin mg is a mac from his phone to his tablet to his portfolio. today apple announced it will pay it's customers dividends. >> i am excited because i've owned apple for a couple of years. >> reporter: it's the first time apple will pay dividends. so what's better for apple. >> the rail question is what's better for the investors that will continue to hold apple without them paying a dividend. >> reporter: there was pressure for apple to share the wealth. the company is sitting on $100 billion in cash. to get some sense of apple's power look at the s & p500 which is up 12 to 13% per year. but if you take out apple's contribution it's up just five to 6%. >> it's very difficult to buck the trend, at the same time trees don't grow up to the ski either. >> reporter: meaning it isn't likely the coto get buy backs forever. >> i think that'

probably not as many as nine- year-old noel. >> 3.1492 and that'[inaudible] . >> now your 11 insta-weather- plus forecast with chief meteorologist tom tasselmire. >> it has cooled off a little bit today. guest today downtown baltimore hit 83. today 82 degrees. b.w.i. marshall will be the official number, 79. we did hit 80 at the airport yesterday. the boundary that went through and kicked up isolated showers and thunderstorms did technically bring in slightly cooler air, but only technically. the record will stand for another year. across the mid-atlantic, it is still warm. you have to go to northern maine to find the last bits of winter hanging on. we have 80's all the way back to chicago. mid to upper 80's around st. louis. we will continue in this very warm air mass for another day or so before the front tries to push through here on the day friday. that will bring a chance for showers and storms. in the north still dealing with snow. it is dry under the high- pressure all across the great lakes, ohio valley and mid atlantic. isolated storms try toing to get going. you can see that on o

ktvu's noel walker reports. >> reporter: just glance around the red box coffee shop in mountain view and you know the apple doesn't fall far from the tree in cupertino. >> i own their products so every day it reminds me, it's a good company. >> reporter: kevin mg is a mac from his phone to his tablet to his portfolio. today apple announced it will pay it's customers dividends. >> i am excited because i've owned apple for a couple of years. >> reporter: it's the first time apple will pay dividends. so what's better for apple. >> the rail question is what's better for the investors that will continue to hold apple without them paying a dividend. >> reporter: there was pressure for apple to share the wealth. the company is sitting on $100 billion in cash. to get some sense of apple's power look at the s & p500 which is up 12 to 13% per year. but if you take out apple's contribution it's up just five to 6%. >> it's very difficult to buck the trend, at the same time trees don't grow up to the ski either. >> reporter: meaning it isn't likely the company will continue to get buy backs forev

. >>> ktvu noel joins us now. >> reporter: we're at fire station number 2 where they have a do it yourself sand bagging operation. they provide the bags and the sand and you get to do all the work. there hasn't been a lot of need but it's nice to know it's here when you do need it. >>> the creek is moving at maximum speed. but the dry winter hasn'tthat once flooded homes. they always plan to rebuild. now their home is five steps up to prevent history from repeating itself. >> one time we had water going from my curb all the way to across our neighbor's driveway curb. there was no sidewalk. no street. it was just water. >> lesson learned. the city has sand bags ready on many street corners. some areas in the north bay are beyond sand bags. a 200 foot toppled. that was before today's storm hit in earnest. >> you can set an alarm clock. they told us this rain would start around 5:00. my iphone says it's 5:21 and the commute is already a mess. >> there is already the 5th collision i've responded to. >> accidents like this one kept the highway patrol and tow trucks busy and drivers hit being th

safety commission has received two hundred reports about capet locks produced by noel industries.are being recalled because they do not adequately secure cabinets. young children can get through the locks possibly leading to exposure to unsay for hazardous items. -- unsafe or hazardous items. applications for jobless benefits hit a four year low last week according to the labor department. weekly applications dropped 5000 to a seasonally adjusted three and a 48,000. that is the lowest level since the break, 2008. applications have been dropping since last fall. employers have added an average of two hundred 45,000 jobs per month from december through february. when applications fall that low it usually means hiring is picking up. a growing number of colleges are doing something we have not seen in years, lowering the cost of tuition. this is part of a new tactic to boost enrollment. they are cutting tuition cost and the time it takes to graduate. at some universities, the cutter 10%-15%. -- cuts are 10%-15%. however, cuts in tuition are usually accompanied by cuts in financial aid

and noel walker found one area where the department is getting some praise. >> reporter: in a secondloor conference room behind closed doors, san francisco's city and law enforcement met with the mayor to give their update on prison alignment. the mayor's appointed sheriff, vicki hennessy took the place of suspended sheriff, ross mirkarimi. >> i think the day-to-day operations are going to continue to work just fine. >> reporter: it comes on the heels of a new report from the american civil liberties union, criticizing the way some counties are allocating funds. while san francisco is an example of how a county should spend money rehabilitating inmates -- >> many other counties have chosen to invest in building more jail space. this is an incredible waste of tax dollars. >> reporter: in the area allocated between 14 and 40% of their realignment money to add jail space. >> there's not enough money to basically warehouse, or lock all of the offenders up. >> reporter: critics say there needs to be a statewide shift in policy, and funding to keep jail cells from having a revolving door.

. >> and i'm noel. [ laughter ] >> and our husbands play for the indianapolis colts. [ cheers and applause> it's so refreshing to meet a group of such strong, powerful women. >> if you ask me -- they look kind of like dudes. [ laughter ] >> cheers! >> eat up. look at all the great food! come on! look at all the great food! >> i just want to do a little taste of everything. >> a little salad -- >> oh, gosh, i gotta just eat healthy -- [ laughter ] >> we may be at the super bowl, but there is no bowl in this world super enough to hold yvonne's lunch. >> you know what? i'mma do that. you know what? i'm just gon' do that. >> oh. >> you know, i'm just gon' go ahead and just grab this one. uh oh, hello! >> the woman can eat. >> can i have everyone's attencione, please? >> fine. >> i'd like to make a toast. thank you all for coming. and to my new friends, the colts' wives. i want to wish your husbands the best of luck at the super bowl this weekend. ♪ >> this is awkward. >> i'm sorry, but our boys didn't make it to the super bowl this year. >> excuse me? what do you mean they didn't make it to th

. >>> ktvu noel joins us now. >> reporter: we're at fire station number 2 where they have a do it yourself sand bagging operation. they provide the bags and the sand and you get to do all the work. there hasn't been a lot of need but it's nice to know it's here when you do need it. >>> the creek is moving at maximum speed. but the dry winter hasn't put the water anywhere to close to levels that once flooded homes. they always plan to rebuild. now their home is five steps up to prevent history from repeating itself. >> one time we had water going from my curb all the way to across our neighbor's driveway curb. there was no sidewalk. no street. it was just water. >> lesson learned. the city has sand bags ready on many street corners. some areas in the north bay are beyond sand bags. a 200 foot toppled. that was before today's storm hit in earnest. >> you can set an alarm clock. they told us this rain would start around 5:00. my iphone commute is already a mess. >> there is already the 5th collision i've responded to. >> accidents like this one kept the highway patrol and tow trucks busy and

and noel walker found one area where the department is getting some praise. >> reporter: in a secondconference room behind closed doors, san francisco's city and law enforcement met with the mayor to give their update on prison alignment. the mayor's appointed sheriff, vicki hennessy took the place of suspended sheriff, ross mirkarimi. >> i think the day-to-day operations are going to continue to work just fine. >> reporter: it comes on the heels of a new report from the american civil liberties union, criticizing the way some counties are allocating funds. while san francisco is an example of how a county should spend money rehabilitating inmates -- >> many other counties have chosen to invest in building more jail space. this is an incredible waste of tax dollars. >> reporter: in the area allocated between 14 and 40% of their realignment money to add jail space. >> there's not enough money to basically warehouse, or lock all of the offenders up. >> reporter: critics say there needs to be a statewide shift in policy, and funding to keep jail cells from having a revolving door. today

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we are in archives and special collections at noel at lsu st part. we are specializing in the history, dhaka and entering history in northwest regions. we have here today some of the things that we consider the stars in our collection. one that we are proudest of that kind of is the opening of what one would consider modernist northwest louisiana i think is the clearing of the rest of the red river 1873. this volume is a collection of 107 photographs that were taken r.b. to document the progression of the clearing of the rest in the red river in 1873 between shreveport. it was particularly important. it was the last and most successful clearing of the red river raft, and it enabled st. part -- shreveport to become important for the rest of the 19th century. unfortunately for some of the crew, the aide, the army corps of engineers, their visit to shreveport coincided with the yellow fever epidemic of 73, which just decimated the population. the lt. eugene woodruff who was in charge of the raft clearing project the votes were caught up in the academic