here it is. >> norman never stops drawing. he communicates in the most effective way through a sharp pencil and a beautiful block of paper. fresh note pads and freshly sharpened pencils just in case something comes to him. upon he's always drawing, drawing, drawing, drawing. it's the way he thinks. it's the way he argues points. you k see the buildings take shape. his lines are very spare but very expressive in a very economical way, just like norman. the view he had went right past his window at eye level, and high would be out there looking at these big, black steam engines rushing past, throwing out smoke and cinders. under the track, there's ray passageway that goes from norman's street which is humble and poor. you can smell the damp. but you go through this tunnel, under the railway, and you find yourself suddenly in a middle-class suburb with trees on the streets and attached villas. and you realize, of course, that norman was on the wrong side of the traction. >> rose: what questions do you ask about potential client t

come in, norman. could i borrow your police whistle? psst!orry, i can't come out at the moment. it's impossible. there's so much to do here. suit yourself, howard. tha'll regret it. regret what? don't say we didn't warn thee. about what? about leaving that attractive young lady with an old rogue like norman clegg. killer clegg. mr. smooch. used to be the hormone king hereabouts. it's all coming back to him. truly: threw us out, didn't he? "this woman and i want to be alone," he said. ( laughs ) norman clegg? oh, that'll be the day. he goes pale at the first whiff of perfume. ( laughs hysterically ) we seem to have a credibility gap. we've got to make it more plausible.

is it windy in norman?nks. >>> traveling near the national mall this morning could cause a few headaches and tourists may find one famous museum caused. this is back of a water main break by constitution and 9th avenue. derrick ward is on the mall this morning for us with more on how these repai are going now and being the impact it could have through the weekend. >> reporter: you know this break happened at about 10:00 p.m. last night. and what you have is a 24 inch main that went at about 10:00 p.m. and caused the closing of constitution avenue between 9th and 12th street and you have lane closure on 10th street between penn and constitution. it's affeing the water pressure in the department of justice. if you have compromised water pressure and you have a compromised sprinkler system. we talked to a researcher, he was headed down here and was told he could not get into the museum of natural history. you know, i h him with the question about the crumbling infrastructure. he's a man of science but his answ

are to new york and coming out of our interview with american professor and historian a norman markowitz who compares modern day america to an iconic movie with millions in the u.s. left home was due to foreclosures and millions more left without jobs. in the united states. the people who are called the middle class the working class that's a very important point and the consciousness what happens if the working class is not working what are known as you know working class is not working and. then they become what in marxist terms would be the open proletariat the marginalized poor do you know the. utopian movie playground or if you're a world where you have a small group of enormously powerful super corporations and a world and the masses of people living in a kind of endless slum and the rich in that in that the whole the elites are planning to colonize outer space but if we are showing to the other planets that in speaking of you know the elite rolling the situation on the masses really being in terrible conditions many are saying that that is what's going on right now yeah well so it

. >> norman wisdom wahas died. he made 40 films. >> emergency. >> he was a slapstick clown, little man. put upon and in dearing. -- endearing. he had had a hard childhood. by 13 he was living on the street. only when he joined the army did he find world, from ship and enjoyment. >> they gave me a home, something to eat, a wonderful place to live, marvelous mates and football, cricket, swimming, everything i thought was in life. >> he turned professional after leaving the army and play the straight man. he was starring in a series of successful low-budget comedies. he was astonishingly agile. charlie chaplin said he was his favorite clown. he was more than just a comedian. he won awards playing a terminally ill cancer patient. he was a huge star in albania. his were the only western films allowed by the communist dictatorship. he was mobbed each time he visited the country. today, his comedy seems unsophisticated, downtrodden clowns are out of fashion. norman wisdom proved there was more to him than slapstick alone.

at work within the system and growing stronger by the day or so says american professor historian norman markowitz his full interview with r.t.d. is coming up in around twenty minutes time but here's some of what he has to say. today in the united states they are dangerous and sinister reactionary forces who. are unlike european countries where these forces are organized in groups like the national front and. in france and here these forces have become a significant force in the republican party and the dangers of these elements. becoming a major power in the u.s. government and what they would do to immigrants to minorities to workers. what they would do in terms of. at the very least creating a deadlock with the obama administration. the possibilities are catastrophic potentially. internet users a cross the globe can now breathe a slight sigh of relief after an investigation busted the man thought to be the world's biggest spammer you've got a good stuff is now on the run after becoming the first ever spammer in russia to be criminally accused is blamed for a fifth of the world's junk

the way to gonegarvin off to the right you will come on the ring road where there are to beins from norman times. the name [inaudible] into our own name now. i had known history but not the place. so next day driving along the route each village seemed a station on the journey of return. kiely's cross i pursued the paper trail, unwound the breed of names through census and baptism each generation christening the last until it was language on the tongue and the trail trailed to the mists of the unrecorded. now i was tracing a highway to ore gin the potatoes struck black with blight. metals and we was their faces swollen with fever. stench rising from the evicted burrowed. men like dogs scoured the fields. i saw in one cottage a royal of rats feasting on an infant. no one where i witnessed anything like it not in calcutta. the voiceless children silenced by hunger the bodies burned at night leaving i don't trace. descending the drum hills i turned off the main road following signs and i language lost before i was born. this was land observe the land was renamed and hushed. what was left for

why not trace through lost norman crests or track dna to tribes 6,000 years gone from the banks.r further back through each human cell to african eve her grunts are tuning savannahs. i felt the gift shared from the bones later that night in the crowded room when all the instruments had gone silent and a man rose up shyly alone and sang sean moss one of the singer's songs. beautiful country, i take you to by the black water screens of the beast the thrush and the black bird sings sweetly and the wild deer over the mountains branches with fruits and blossom the and hives with honey. and the corn creek lifts it's cries in the grass. [applause] >> your poem has a sense of place and you mentioned earlier the sensation of going to canada and what it felt like to be in that place in canada and in other opportunities to be in that land in ireland. i wonder if you can reflect and margaret as well, what were the physical experiences you were having and what was the importance ever going to the place by way of informing your story? >> i don't know if anybody seen there is a series on now on

speaks to professor and historian norman mock. i. t's sitting down with professor and historian norman markowitz sir thank you very much for joining us today you are welcome i'd like to be here i'd like to kick start our conversation by drawing parallels and really. comparing the situation that is going on in europe right now and in the united states in europe and here we have a lot of people that are very disappointed with the consequences of economic crises that took place and in europe we're seeing dozens of cities filled with people rallying really disappointed expressing their outrage in the united states silence why is that you know why i wouldn't say they're silent at all. the political situations are very different the united states.

i wondered if her death would release me or if i was doomed to norman bates territory. he will be here in five minutes. half an hour later, after i squeezed. we were awkward as wall flowers. the lamp was already blazing with intensity. my growing hard on >> he seemed amenable. he got cold feet? may be he lost interest. ben shrugged. who knows. i would be with us in the second. i am serious. don't you feel abandoned. it's a three way honey, i don't think two people can feel abandoned. he might be late. i looked at the clock again. 25 minutes. only hustlers can get away with that. he's not a hustler? ben turned and looked at me. you think i bought us a hustler? how pathettic tic do you think we are? >> i sort of felt like he targeted us. i didn't get that sense. may be i'm wrong. ben smiled. you are disappointed. no , i said, no just annoyed. he pulled down the waist band. i don't need a mercy suck. he looked up. mercy suck. whatever. undeterred ben got down to business. mercy i said, there was when mr. johnson knocked on the door. you may have figured it out by now. to u

prestigious awizards, an award from the national association of latino independent producers and the norman lear award. so for this accomplishment and for which you gave so many of us insight into our common humanity, thank you. [applause] >> our next award is a business award, and we would like to invite supervisor john after loss, who will be -- avalos, who will be presenting the business award tonight. [applause] >> our next honoree is ruben santana. he is the founder and president of rubecon builders, incorporated. founded in 1993 and based in san francisco, rubecon is a leader in health care, pharmaceutical and biomedical construction. they also perform commercial and industrial work in both the public and private sectors. mr. santana and his company are committed to giving back to the community in which they serve. please join us in welcoming mr. ruben santana. [applause] >> our next awardees for business is a son and mother duo, who are extraordinarily well recognized for their achievements with mama art cafe. mr. paulo cabezas opened mama art cafe in 2004. he's cure rated over 70 ar

finally, al norman. al, thank you for your willingness to serve in the southeast community facility commission. i always thought -- we need to raise this far out there of what we do for the southeast community facility. we'll have a lot of conversations. al is a legend out there. thank you for that. who else are we missing? oh, yeah, nancy. you will also be continuing your service. i apologize. we did not know you were going to make it. i'm glad you made it, nancy. thank you for extending your service with the golden gate concourse. i will remind everybody -- if you are going to disagree with me, please give me a heads up. that does not mean that things do not, in front of you that are controversial and on the fly, you might have a point of view, and you should share that point of view. on big issues, all i ask is a heads up. only on two occasions -- frank, i imagine this has happened to you periodically. i have a call at 2:00 in the morning where one of my department heads was removed by the commission.

documentary's, when i was doing this movie, i was reading "in the belly of the beast" by norman mailer. there is a much research to do, it is daunting. you do the best you can. you would work on the accent and throw it away. you just try to use your imagination. tavis: when you invest this much energy into a project like this that puts on trial our system of jurisprudence, you learn things about the system, you change or a few points about the system, tell me about that? >> i think i was a little 19t naive. if people were in prison they did something wrong, they belong there. it is not true. the system is flawed. there is a lot of innocent people in prison right now for things they did not do on death row. we put a lot of trust in the system and it is not necessarily founded. i think i was not that way until i was in this film. the world,more thatavis: moren we incarcerate people. it is a fascinating conversation. we seem to have these fits and starts about having a conversation about our penal system. >> it is horrible in there. it depends on the prison. guys come out and they are on

. >> [speaking spanish] >> my name is norman. i am also from the 200 block of turk. i want to share some of the concerns i have as a mother. i am going to try to speak from my heart even though i wrote everything down. some of the things i want to share with you is that it hits my heart when i hear folks have long-term illness and cancer. i understand the need of folks who have that. but i think we have to balance needs. why can't we also push for open space for children, libraries, or a senior center? >> i want to speak a little bit of english. it is so so, but i want to try. i do not understand why the people think about the people who are over 40 or 50. why don't we think about the future? why don't we think about the children? you concede there are a lot of babies. what will happen with their future? i have one in the university and i have one in the middle school. they walk around the block. they go to the army. what happened to the security of the children? we worked so hard for help the passengers. what happens when we call to the police? they have a lot to do

norman nearly untouched, 31-yard score. nelson hayes, nearly untouched.n during breast cancer awareness month with a pink shoes. red hager, just making a nice play. .3-21 was the final perio no championship, john carlson collects big. he is very accurate. the game is tied at one. 1.e devils of tooneup 2- he makes it look easy, gets his second goal of the game. washington has six unanswered goals. to legends embody all that is good about baseball. the baseball tradition may haunt him. for years he used smokeless tobacco and now has cancer of that salivary againslands. doctors believe they cannot keep aggressive cancer early. tony gwynn plans to undergo cancer five times a week for the next two months. the rangers first-ever playoff series it when, a solo shot off matt garza. the rangers take up 2-1 lead. crawford's first hit of the postseason. tampa's course 3 in the eighth. rays keep the series alive but the rangers lead the series 3-1. the rangers lead the series 3-1. i think we need tax breaks to send kids to college. so i worked for a $2,500 tax credit

a british comic actor, norman wisdom, has died at the age of 85. he was a huge star in albania, where his films were the only western films allowed when the country was ruled by a dictatorship. there has been anger in australia at the release of a video that shows an unarmed at -- unarmed aboriginal man being tasered. happening in 2008, from sydney here is nick bryant. >> this is the disturbing close- up of the video footage taken two years ago at the police detention facility. showing the treatment meted out by the group of police officers against an aboriginal man, thought to be mentally unstable. at first the police tried to subdue him using a single blast from a stun gun. then they used it again and again. 13 times in total, the last five off camera. even know the man was clearly in agony. in an internal investigation, two senior constables were fined for using excessive force but no charges were brought against him. the premier of western australia has strongly condemned their actions. >> this was excessive use of a taser that could not be jus

norman stamp shot by police near a strip club in northeast baltimore two years ago. police say he pulled out the weapon on police. the widow says police simply overreacted. >> if you travel by train this weekend be prepared to see heavily armed security. kathleen standing by live at penn station in baltimore to explain why. kathleen? >> operation safe rail is in full effect for columbus day weekend and there's a very heavy police presence here. check it out. it's the first time there has been a nationwide anti-terrorism exercise on the railroad lines. at penn station fully armed officers can be seen even on board the train. the motto is if you see something, say something. they don't want the -- they want the public help as they search for anything suspicious. the additional security will include random baggage check. >> i suppose i worry more about a train crash than a terrorist attack. ú> as long as i pray before i get on the train and i'm covered i'm good. >>reporter: we are back live at penn station. federal authorities say the operation is not being conducted in

and tony norman, the associate editor joining us from pittsburgh. thanks for being with us and sharing your perspective with our c-span audience. guest: thanks. guest: thank you. host: the president is beginning this week in ohio with a couple of campaign rallies, then maryland for an event tomorrow. the president then travels to a number of states beginning with a rally in seattle on thursday for senator patty murray. on friday, campaigning for senator barbara boxer and then on to nevada where he'll attend a campaign event. and then wrap up the week in minneapolis and also the democratic congressional campaign committee fund raisers. . . >> next, "newsmakers". with sheila bair. after that former secretary of state, condoleeza rice. >> this week on c-span's "newsmakers," sheila bair. one of government officials who will be responsible for implementing the new dodd-frank regulation laws and to address the mortgage crisis currently facing our country. here's to question here, tom of the financial times newspaper. mr. brinkly first question? >> chairma