it's kate's first-ever trip to north america. which will bring them to los angeles a week from tomorrow. but they're beginning tonight in canada and the well behaved and reserved people of that great nation are in their own way reacting wildly to the trip. here is nbc's kevin tibbles. >> reporter: they have been lining the streets of ottawa since sunup, all waiting to catch a glimpse, albeit fleeting, of the duke and duchess of cambridge. on their first international tour together. it appeared as if everyone wanted to present the royal newlyweds with a bouquet and the flower stands were doing brisk business. what do you think of kate? >> i think she's pretty. >> reporter: the couple's nine days 7,000 miles of crisscross of canada traveling to canada, quebec, the atlantic, the arctic and finally to calgary, home of oil barons and cowboys. >> before we were married, we had a longing to come here. the geography of canada is unsuunsu unsurpassed and matched only by its people. >> reporter: tomorrow they will help celebrate with a hal

in north america, "john king usa" starts right now. >>> thanks, wolf. good evening. tonight's britain's tabloid scandal escalates. two rupert murdoch-owned newspapers obtained and published information about prime minister gordon brown's family and finances. and tensions between the united states and syria, near a boiling point tonight. a government that beats its own people when they march peacefully slow to offer help when the united states embassy sund attack. >>> tonight the united states being unable to pay its bills because it's maxed out its credit line. to get more spending power president obama is trying to broker a deal with congress that would slash $2 trillion in red ink over the next decade. republicans refuse to raise taxes. president obama is left to sound like a nagging parent. no breakthrough at this afternoon's white house session. the president will reconvene the talks tomorrow. let's discuss the stakes and politics with jessica yellin and gloria borger. the sound we didn't quite have there was the time saying it's time to rip off the band-aid, eat

that would need to be on deposit with the findings of the contract with shel north america. we would need to have operating reserves. we estimate upwards of $1.50 million would be needed on may 30 or $40 million annual budget. we need $1,000,000.5$1.5 millio. that accounts for rate stability's. we're assuming we have a successful program. we are assuming customers will participate. the market survey we have done shows that want to participate. the reserve would into overtime and would be able to put this in a deposition to invest that into owned grenoble's or when we renewed -- to get the most advantageous terms for our customers at that time. the items that is not down here -- on here is a performance bond. that would be another bar that we could add to the reserves. >> the rate stabilization reserve, one of the questions i had, given that we are buying a fixed amount of power, how do we intend to deal with successful conservation programs? >> it is a good question treated in this case based on market research, we have seen responsiveness of one-third of customers were inte

ice hockey club the steel foxes are put through their final paces had their big trip to north america. the first russia have completed the clean sweep of gold medals in the synchronised swimming events at the aquatics world championships in shanghai the unofficial queen of the pool the shanker leading the team to their sevens gold out of a possible seven the free routine combination was the closing event and was once again won by the russian girls in some style as host china trailed by more than two points to take their six silver this triumph gave the all conquering the sixteenth world gold industrious korea while earlier on saturday live near that chain had also captured a silver in the men's twenty five kilometer open water swim. in forward on the mark webber will start from pole position at sunday's german grand prix after an hourly lewis hamilton and red bull team mate sebastian vettel in a thrilling qualifying battle at the no beggaring webber claimed his third pole position of the season despite a suit curb lap from hamilton while world champion vettel qualified outside the top

now we head into north america. very long frontal system impacting north america. today we've got lots of showers developing here across the lower midwest, the plains states up towards the northern rockies. particularly severe near this low pressure system from montana and across illinois as well. significant rain to be found from nebraska as well as parts of the four corners. the flooding is also going to be a concern here. looking quite showery across the southern coast of the u.s. as well. 37 degrees in wichita today. 38 in houston, so the heat really hangs on to this southeastern portion of the u.s. for europe heavy rains impacting finland, as well as strong winds. also showers into western russia as well. over towards the west, we've got this strong low pressure system that is rapidly developing. this is going to be bringing significant rain here over a wide area. as you can see, watch out for intense showers, strong thunderstorms to break out. pockets of pink showing up for southern france, switzerland, as well as parts of germany as well. looking quite calm

this was their first official trip at newlyweds and catherine's first time in north america ?ie. a weekend of blows-- of blues is wrapping up in hayward. that's the sound of music that filled the air for the 12th annual hayward russell city blues festival. this year's theme? the tradition continues. it features artists who performed at the festival for the past 12 years. >> actually had nice weather for that event. >> sure did. >>> we will start cooling down. by tuesday and wednesday you may have to pull out the parkas. okay maybe not that cold, but we will see temperatures aboutive 15 degrees below where you should be this time of year. here is a nice high look from our camera. a pretty good wind whipping up there. the northwest is experiencing gusts up to 34 miles per hour. much of the bay area is seeing clear skies. ocean beach is seeing a little of the low cloudiness starting to move back in. and it will start to move further inland overnight tonight. it is a mild evening with clear skies. antioch is 68. we have 60 in napa. san francisco is cooling to 55. oakland is 58. 56 de

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if that more voices have not come forward in the european union in north america against a far right revisionism i can tell you that the baltic states are investing a fortune in bringing in nyc westerners from western europe and north america for a visit through junkets for honors in order to persuade them of the new it's three supposedly have to equal totalitarian regimes so i think our movement has to grow and we also have to come back the fire efforts in the european parliament which in two thousand and eight big group there proclaimed the prague declaration that declares naziism and communism to be the same thing which is absolute nonsense ok professor cats are afraid we're going to have to leave it there i expect the cheap holocaust history in the baltics many thanks thanks. now more than a year has possums the indian government announced the unprecedented right to education and the law was aimed at stamping out an interest in battling the country's ses he can only divide the concept was to provide compulsory and free education for all children aged six to fourteen however as th

and despite being the oldest continuously run citrus packing operation in north america, it actually is pretty state-of-the-art these days. >> basically, what we're looking at here is the cera system that basically takes a picture of each piece of fruit. then what happens is that it can tell, basically, its color, its size, and then how much blemish might be on that lemon itself. >> and whatever isn't deemed of the highest and best quality is then removed and sold to be used as lemon-scented cleaners, air fresheners, or candles. so what's the key to growing a great lemon for all of these years? as it turns out, location, location, location. >> lemons are very temperamental with the weather, just likwe are, as a matter of fact. in fact, they enjoy the beautiful weather that we do. they're able to flower year-round, and that's why we can get such great production off these smaller trees. they're relatively small trees. and so, we're in a perfect scenario between not too hot, not too cold. we're a bit of the goldilocks of the citrus growing area. >> california is the number one state fo

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the second quotation brings us to north america. of course, there were people who wanted to be lords of the land in north america, too, and the friends of the king, lords baltimore, lord fairfax, the penn family, any number of friends and the creditors of the king, but it turned out in the 17th century they couldn't make money off of rents because there was too much land and not enough settlers for them. and so you had to give all these breaks to people to have them come settle your land and build farms there. that balance of power shifts in the 18th century as you have more settlers and as the east coast, the seaboard increasingly is patented and settled up. so what you find in the 18th century is a new effort on behalf of these proprietors, often now the children and grandchildren of the original owners of the land, to get rent. and one of the places this is going on is the colony of east jersey where some two dozen proprietors -- now, i think, largely the grandchildren of those originally granted the land -- are trying to collect

it was my first international competition, my first time outside north america, and it was a really exciting world championship because it was also the first time that the chinese team was participating in the world championships since the beginning of the cultural revolution in 1976. i really look forward to seeing the chinese team. there was a great mystique since they had been gone from the table tennis team for such a long time. i still remember the first time i ever saw the chinese team. we were playing in the practice hall. many countries, many tables. we were all playing. the sound of the ball going. we were all talking, and suddenly, a huge crush came over the whole room. we were looking around, and up there, the chinese team walks in. to us, they were the gods of table tennis. [laughter] i will never forget. then, the tournament went on for two weeks, and almost the last day of the tournament, we received the invitation to go to china. it was an amazing surprise, and it was great excitement. i was really excited to go, of course. and i was full of curiosity. i really did not know wh

while energy developement comes with some risk, north america's natural gas producers are committed to and responsibly providing decades of cleaner burning energy for our country, drilling thousands of feet below fresh water sources within self contained well systems and using state of the art monitoring technologies, rigorous practices help ensure our operations are safe and clean for our communities and the environment we are america's natural gas. bill: a new headache for airline passengers. congress failed to tree negotiate the funding for the faa. without that funding the government is not allowed to collect taxes so some of the airlines have raised prices on you the passenger. airline tickets are going up sometimes as much as $60. the federal tax practitioner and small businessman ... god morning, is congress going to work this out? what happened? >> i think our elected officials have postured and polarized one another so much that it caused this problem with the faa. bill: the airline never met a ticket hike they didn't like. i.s. airways and american airlines are going to raise

>>pam: san francisco is the greatest city in north america! receiving top marks. aubria?ter: against 27 major metro areas, denver, boston, running the top five. this in the recognition for good work such as composting and plastic bag banding. carbon emissions, energy, land use, water, environmental policy the freezing of building standards and high marks for transportation. also major to those in the waist with category faz with mandatory or recycling. and high marks. with and low levels of pollution in san francisco. it rose to the top of the list because of a strong showing across-the-board. the mayor believes that it is the green is because of people from san francisco are willing to go to the distance for stability for sustainability. aubrai keeno >>pam: some people have other thoughts now, here is stanley roberts who found people behaving badly. >>stanley: san francisco has been the greatest city in america. that title. really? apparently, whoever did this raking it did not consult with me, first. if they did? with this-rating >>stanley: about what i show you and let

kate middleton wrapping up the whirlwind tour of north america. 10 days, 40 dresses. obably the most amazing of all dresses. we're going to talk about kate's fashion sense with stylist to the stars rachel zoe on "good morning america" and good morning, america, i'm bianna golodryga. live from the belasco theater where the stars mingled with the royal couple last night. dan, if you're not into fashion, i know you're into food. let me tell what they ate last night. filet of beef with creamed leeks and pickled spring garlic. yum. >> i guess they couldn't get away with serving rubber chicken with the royals in the house. >> or fish and chips. not going to wipe the grease on the alexander mcqueen dress. much more from l.a. coming up. good morning, everybody, i'm dan harris. i want to tell you about serious news we are going to tell you about this morning. jaycee dugard, kidnapped and raped for 18 years. she has now spoken exclusively with abc's diane sawyer. we'll look how the system failed dugard and allowed a convicted sex offender to hold her prisoner. bianna, over you t

it was my first international competition, my first time outside north america, and it was a really exciting world championship because it was also the first time that the chinese team was participating in the world championships since the beginning of the cultural revolution in 1976. i really look forward to seeing the chinese team. there was a great mystique since they had been gone from the table tennis team for such a long time. i still remember the first time i ever saw the chinese team. we were playing in the practice hall. many countries, many tables. we were all playing. the sound of the ball going. we were all talking, and suddenly, a huge crush