binge drinki and the bad behaor that goes witht is stroly associated with the countries of northern europe, but there are gns th the heavydrinking cultures moving south. young people in italy appear to have falleout of love with la dolce vita, and they are hiing the bottle wit arming fervor. we have ts report. >> drinking has always been par of the itian culture. the water-down wind, getti drunk. until now. that is all changed. a new wayof thinkingas arrived. thesehops of spiritsre taking over from-the drks of choice. young alians are ming away from the moreestrained medirranean-style drinking. >> i drinkeer. i drink because work all the we, and saturday, sunda i drink. >> [unintelligible] >> i drink cocktails. >> the cities are beginning to clamp down on unrage drinkers. here inome, drking on the stres has been banned afr 9:00, something debt - the deputyayor wants to enforce year round. >> has bome a meeting place for thounds of young people, and they are justetting und and younger. -- younger and young. residents have been kept awake all night. esidents said emily are drinking more than

it is nowhere near the levels seen in parts of northern europe. there are still calls to discovering the traditional italian way of life. >> with violence still edit current in iraq, in maybe surprising that the government is proposing banning smoking in indoor public places. >> it has been a whole day without a cigarette. there is a ban on smoking right now in iraq as it is ramadan. with the evening call to prayer, a normal life resumes. without nicotine, many iraqis say that the country cannot function. they reacted with astonishment to a government proposal to ban smoking on all of the time in public places. >> almost everyone is puffing away. it is hard to believe that the government has any chance of banning smoking in iraq. many say that it does not have its priorities right. fix the basics first, like security. >> to get the person who is a terrorist, not the smoking. this is a free pleasure. >> not everybody respects the daytime ramadan bar on smoking. the government workers have to light up outside. >> i hate smoking. i never put a cigare

we found in europe the temperatures to the west of northern europe were far lower than normal and everythingith a picture the north atlantic circulation system had temporarily gone into and i think there are those who think that the melting of the ice, floating ice in the arctic ocean had some connection with this event. after all the circulation is driven by the sinking of salt water which is a form that comes up from the south and when it reaches the northern region it cools off and its density because it contains it causes it to sink if you inject a large amount of fresh water into this it throws a monkey wrench into the circulation system and maybe that happened. the good thing about it if it is a good thing is the cooling was no where the mayor as europe as dramatic as expected and i understand this is largely a consequence of the fact that most of the heat attributed to the north atlantic gulf stream is carried by the atmosphere and not by the ocean 75% is atmospheric and only 25% oceanic so it is a real effect but is not as noticeable as it might -- you might think it would be. >> --

successful in their effort to change the country's immigration policy, which favors immigrants from northern europe>> he's passionate about government working effectively for people in the interests of everyday folks and people who are struggling to become middle class americans. >> then on july 14th, 1967, amidst gossip circulating in washington of ted's wandering eye and alleged womanizing, joan gives birth to the couple's third child, patrick joseph kennedy. despite these rumors of domestic discord, ted kennedy is making a professional home for himself in the senate. brother robert, however, is envisioning something different. >> i think the difference between the men was that teddy felt natural and relaxed in the senate role. i'm not sure bobby ever did. it was almost as if the senate were a launching pad for him to become president. >> i am announcing today my candidacy for the presidency of the united states. >> ted was among the people who really didn't want bob to run for president. and one of the reasons was his concern that he might be shot, as jack had been. >> ultimately ted supports ro

successful in their effort to change the country's immigration policy, which favors immigrants from northern europeuly 14, 1967, amidst gossip circulating in washington of ted's wandering eye and alleged womanizing, joan gives birth to the couple's third child, patrick joseph kennedy. despite these rumors of domestic discord, ted kennedy is making a professional home for himself in the senate. brother robert, however, is envisioning something different. >> i think the difference between them then was that teddy felt natural and relaxed in the senate role. i'm not sure bobby ever did. it was almost as if the senate were a launching pad for him to become president. >> i am announcing today my candidacy for the presidency of the united states. >> ted was among the people who really didn't want bob to run for president. one of the reasons was his concern that he might be shot, as jack has done. >> ultimately ted supports robert's decision. as he had done for jack, he campaigns for his brother. >> my thanks to all of you. now it's on to chicago and let's win there. >> but just three months into the camp

rearms german shoulders while the raf, british air force one attack soviet cities from bases in northern europend pretty soon nuclear weapons were added to the mix. all of this was the classified ten years ago. well, the official stand also wasn't very easy to take. about ten years later, when khrushchev took over in russia, and he very soon propose a very sharp mutual reduction in offensive military weaponry. he understood very well that the much weaker soviet economy couldn't possibly sustain an arms race with the united states and still hope to develop. well, when the u.s. dismissed the author, as it did, he carried out the reduction unilaterally and kennedy did react to that. he reacted with a very sharp increase in military spending, which the russian military later tried to match, and that is taking the economy as khrushchev had anticipated. actually that was the crucial moment of the soviet collapse, and the economy stagnated since then. whatever one thinks of the defensive pretext for nato, at least it had some credibility, but what happens when the soviet union is gone in a pretext dis

mikhail gorbachevgorbachev, and promised they would not station nuclear missiles or anything in northern europe, so his reach overseas was quite long and quite powerful. but beyond that, president kennedy, way back in the '60s, the kennedy name is all over the world. it's represented everything good about america in the '60s and beyond, even in iran, where i grew up, there was a kennedy boulevard, and all over africa and parts of the rest of the world, the kennedy name and legacy stood for all the promise of the united states, reform, democracy, and the kind of things that people around the world look to the u.s. for. >> christiane, you talk about reform and democracy and peace accords that he's been involved with. i remember 20 years ago covering a press conference on the hill, and it was the young, stroping ted kennedy and the young, strapping john kerry, and they were talking about human rights in el salvador, and you talk about just the legacy of the family, his brother creating the peace corps, that definitely folded into this family and what they did for human rights around the world. >>

first, pirate attack on a major ship in northern europe in modern times.rnett. greatly appreciate it. > >>> top democratic strategist bob shrum will be here, as well as our roundtable in washington, harold ford, pat buchanan, savannah guthrie and mika brzezinski. a we waiting for? the flowers are blooming. the air is sweet. and zyrtec® starts... relieving my allergies... 2 hours faster than claritin®. my worst sympts feel better, indoors and outdoors. with zyrtec®, the fastest... 24-hour allergy medicine, i promise not to wait as long to go for our ride. zyrtec® works fast, so i can love the air™. >>> welcome back to "morning joe." a cloudy view of new york city. let's go from new york, up to cape cod. talk to democratic strategist bob shrum. he's on cape cod this morning, of course, to attend eunice shriver's wake later on today. we're going to be talking about that extraordinary woman in a moment, bob. but first, let's take a look at something the president had to say about one of his good republican allies on capitol hill. take a listen. >> i think that

the next one is a belief that performance really matters, and we saw in both asia and much of northern europe that what is done in schools is de to support high student achievement. i have to tell you that, when i rst saw this it caused me to do a lot of reflection. because it was clear that as a high-school principal, i let's wait too many things interfere in become a distraction. in high achievi countries you don't walk into schools with announcements flaring. you don't see interruptions during instruction to deliver lunches. you don't see class periods canceled for pep rallies, and interscholastic sports. you juqt don't see any of that. the schools and other purpose than that is to educate all kids to a high standard. in most countries believed education as a civil right and it is treated like that. the fifth area is the school focus relentlessly on results and again, it was e first echinacea that i sought a system in which all the schools were immersed in student performance data and the analysis of that data people used to actually plan program buthat was the most repressive thing to me

we saw in both asia and much of northern europe that what is done in schools is done to support highnt achievement. i have to tell you that when i first saw this, it caused me to do a lot of reflection, because it was clear that as a high-school principal, i'm that too many things to interfere, to become a distraction. in high achieving countries you don't walk into schools with announcements blaring. you don't see interruptions during instruction to deliver lunches, you don't see class periods canceled for pat riley's and interiorscholastic sports. the schools know their purpose, that is to educate all kids to a high standard. in most countries, is believed that education is a civil rights and is treated like that. the fifth area, focus relentlessly on results. it was first in asia, all the schools were immersed in student performance data. the analysis of that data, people use program is. they stopped doing things that were not working, we add on instead of taking away. this was a big revelation to me. when you diagnose a problem, you need to treat it, you need to not use old medic

northern iraq. richard engel has the latest. >> reporter: they were first here in turkey. and this is the bridge that crosses between europe and asia. they began this ill-fated backpacking journey. they crossed from here into northern iraq, and it's a mountainous, relatively peaceful part of iraq. after staying a few days in hotels, thisey decided to head the bordero iraq, and go backpacking, and that's where they crossed in iran, according to iranian officials and were detained by officials. and they have identified the three. all of them are described in their 20s or early 30s. >> that was richard engel reporting. the state department is trying to get access to the individuals through the swiss. >>> the homeless man is responsible for yesterday's bomb scare at laguardia airport. the airport is back in business. policevacuated the main terminal, when a man approached security with a bag full of batteries and wires. a number of flights were delayed or cancelled. the evacuation presented flight crews from getting in and out of laguardia. it's 75 degrees outside. up next, visiting the magic kingdom will cost you a little bit

and you can see behind me, the bridge that crosses between europe and asia, the bosphorous, they crossed here from turkey, into northern iraq into kyrgyzstan, a mountainous, relatively peaceful part of iraq. then, after staying a few days in kyrgyzstan in hotels they decided to head for the border with iran and go backpacking. that is where they apparently crossed into iran, a according to irani officials, and were quickly detained by iranian security. now, their names have not been released by the u.s. state department, however, an official helping us investigate this case has identified the three as shane bauer, sarah short and joshua fitale, all described in their 20s or early 30s. jenna? >> you have been to the kyrgyzstan border region where the americans were taken, richard. can you tell us a little bit about the area there? >> reporter: i was actually detained on that border myself. luckily, i was picked up by kergish officials relaxed after a couple hours of questioning and tea and let me go the iranians are much more strict, much more suspicious of foreigners. this area has a unique history which makes the iran

northern iraq on friday. iraqi officials identified them as shane bauer, share ra shores and joshua patel. their friends say they spent time or lived in europe or the middle east. here's a reaction. >> the hardest part is not being able to communicate with the people detaining them. that's the scariest part. >> another american who traveled with them stayed behind in iraq. he's now at the u.s. embassy here. iran's media says that the three were arrested for illegally entering the country, and that an investigation is under way. now, switzerland represents american interests there because the united states doesn't have diplomatic relations with iran. you're going to hear more details about the three hikers including whether anyone warned them about hiking near iran's border. that is less than ten minutes away. >>> many anxiously awaiting to find out if congress is going to put more money into the cash for clunkers program, but there is a debate over this wildly popular incentive. remember, they blew through the money in like a week. jennifer westhoven is looking into that. more, more, more, give us more. >> we don't know what will happen. if